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 it,
no time to pause or muse upon a business? There is more hope of making
a scholar and a wise man of one that is dull and heavy, and slow in his
studies, than of one that has such a mercurial genius and cannot fix.
2. Through pride and conceitedness: Seest thou a man that is forward to
speak to every matter that is started, and affects to speak first to
it, to open it, and speak last to it, to give judgment upon it, as if
he were an oracle? There is more hope of a modest fool, who is sensible
of his folly, than of such a self-conceited one.