Proverbs 29:20 (BSB)

Do you see a man who speaks in haste? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

From Proverbs 29. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 29:20

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 29:20: Solomon here shows that there is little hope of bringing a man to wisdom that is hasty either, 1. Through rashness and inconsideration: Seest thou a man that is hasty in his matters, that is of a light desultory wit, that seems to take a thing quickly, but takes it by the halves, gallops over a book or science, but takes no time to digest...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 29:20: Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words,.... Swift to speak either before God or men; that takes upon him to speak upon a subject, or return an answer to a question, before he has thoroughly thought of it, and well considered it, and digested what he should say; see Ecc 5:2; or "hasty in matters" (x); in his business; runs rashly and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 29:20: (Compare Pro 21:5). hasty in . . . words?--implying self-conceit (Pro 26:12).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 29:20: Pro 29:20 20 Seest thou a man hasty in his words? The fool hath more hope than he. Cf. Pro 26:12. Such an one has blocked up against himself the path to wisdom, which to the fool, i.e., to the ingenuous, stands open; the former is perfect, of the latter something may yet be made.