Proverbs 19:2

“Also, [that] the soul [be] without knowledge, [it is] not good, etc.] Without knowledge of things natural and civil, especially without the knowledge of God and Christ, and divine and spiritual things; to be without this is not good, yea, very bad; for men without such knowledge and understanding are, like the beasts that perish, and for lack of it do. Jarchi interprets it, without the law. Or, “to be without the knowledge of the soul is not good”f535; so the Targum, Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, “he that knoweth not his soul, it is not good for him;” that does not know he has a soul, or however takes no more care of it than if he had none; who knows not the worth and value of it, its…”

“The last illustrates the first clause. Rashness, the result of ignorance, brings trouble.”

“Hasteth - That rashly and headily rushes into actions. Proverbs 19:3”

“19:2 Rushing into things without understanding is dangerous.”

“that the: Pro 10:21; Ecc 12:9; Isa 27:11; Hos 4:6; Joh 16:3; Rom 10:2; Phi 1:9 and: Pro 1:16, Pro 14:29, Pro 21:5, Pro 25:8, Pro 28:22; Job 31:5; Ecc 7:9; Isa 28:16 Proverbs 19:3”

“2 The not-knowing of the soul is also not good, And he who hasteneth with the legs after it goeth astray. Fleischer renders נפשׁ as the subj. and לא־טוב as neut. pred.: in and of itself sensual desire is not good, but yet more so if it is without foresight and reflection. With this explanation the words must be otherwise accentuated. Hitzig, in conformity with the accentuation, before us: if desire is without reflection, it is also without success. But where נפשׁ denotes desire or sensuality, it is always shown by the connection, as e.g., Pro 23:2; here דּעת, referring to the soul as knowing (cf. Psa 139:14), excludes this meaning. But נפשׁ is certainly gen. subjecti; Luzzatto's…”