Listen before you speak, for to speak before you’ve heard the facts will bring humiliation.
Be careful in making a rash promise before God, or you may be trapped by your vow and live to regret it.
When King Darius heard this, he was deeply grieved and sought to find a way he could rescue Daniel from his fate. For most of that day until sundown, he wrestled within himself over how Daniel could be spared.
So King Darius signed the written decree.
He cautioned them, saying, “Does our law decide a man’s guilt before we first hear him and allow him to defend himself?”