Proverbs 19:2
Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good: and he that is hasty with his feet shall stumble.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ubi non est scientia animæ, non est bonum, et qui festinus est pedibus offendet.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- The Septuagint has no verse matching this one here: it lacks the verse, or carries it elsewhere in its own order.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- גַּ֤ם בְּלֹא דַ֣עַת נֶ֣פֶשׁ לֹא ט֑וֹב וְאָ֖ץ בְּרַגְלַ֣יִם חוֹטֵֽא
Haydock's commentary
Soul. Wholesome and spiritual. Hebrew, "the soul or life is not good."
Stumble. "The more I make haste, the less I advance," said Plato; (Republic 7.) and Augustus often repeated; Sat cito, si sat bene. (Suetonius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.