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Proverbs 19:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the LORD. "

Proverbs 19:3

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1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

2 It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty with one’s feet and miss the way.

3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against the LORD.

4 Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

5 A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

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Here we see two examples of human foolishness. First, people bring trouble on themselves, run into dead ends, and get tangled up in their own affairs. “The foolishness of man perverts his way.” In other words, when people make bad choices, they often meet with setbacks and disappointment, and the cause is their own folly. “It is their own iniquity that corrects them.”

Second, after they have done this, they blame God and resent him in their hearts, as if he had treated them unfairly. But in truth, they are hurting themselves. When people complain, they damage their own peace and torment themselves. When they complain against the Lord, they insult his justice, goodness, and authority. It is unreasonable to blame God for trouble that our own stubbornness or carelessness brought on us. We should blame ourselves instead, because the fault is our own (Isaiah 50:1).

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Related Verses

Isaiah 32:6

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"For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail."

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Proverbs 12:23

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"A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness."

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Psalms 94:11

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"The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile."

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Jeremiah 17:5

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"The LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from the LORD."

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Ecclesiastes 10:2

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"A wise man’s heart is at his right hand, but a fool’s heart at his left."

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Proverbs 14:8

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"The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit."

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Proverbs 19:1

"Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool."

Proverbs 19:2

"It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty with one’s feet and miss the way."

Proverbs 19:4

"Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend."

Proverbs 19:5

"A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free."

Proverbs 19:6

"Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts."

Proverbs 19:7

"All the relatives of the poor shun him; how much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone."

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