Proverbs 18:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, It is folly and shame unto him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ He who answers a matter before he hears the facts–it is folly and shame to him. [John 7:51.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

Common English Bible

¹³ Those who answer before they listen are foolish and disgraceful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Whoever responds before he listens, demonstrates himself to be foolish and deserving of confusion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ 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;