Proverbs 18:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, It is folly and shame unto him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who answers a matter before he hears the facts–it is folly and shame to him. [John 7:51.]

American Standard Version (1901)

He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

Common English Bible

Those who answer before they listen are foolish and disgraceful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that answereth before he heareth sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion.

Proverbs 18:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:8

And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

2 Samuel 16:4

Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine is all that pertaineth unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me find favour in thy sight, my lord, O king.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

Daniel 6:14

Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Daniel 6:9

Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.

John 7:51

Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee;