Parallel Verses
King James 2000
He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him.
New American Standard Bible
It is folly and shame to him.
King James Version
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Holman Bible
this is foolishness and disgrace for him.
International Standard Version
Whoever answers before listening is both foolish and shameful.
A Conservative Version
He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
American Standard Version
He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.
Amplified
He who answers before he hears [the facts]—
It is folly and shame to him.
Bible in Basic English
To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.
Darby Translation
He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and shame unto him.
Julia Smith Translation
He turning back the word before he shall hear it, is folly and shame to him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself [belongs] to him as well as shame.
Modern King James verseion
If one answers a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that giveth sentence in a matter before he hear it, is a fool, and worthy to be confounded.
NET Bible
The one who gives an answer before he listens -- that is his folly and his shame.
New Heart English Bible
He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
The Emphasized Bible
He that answereth before he heareth, a folly, it is to him, and, a reproach.
Webster
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame to him.
World English Bible
He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 18:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness
12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility. 13 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame unto him. 14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?
Cross References
John 7:51
Does our law judge any man, before it hears him, and knows what he does?
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
2 Samuel 16:4
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, all that belonged unto Mephibosheth are yours. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.
2 Samuel 19:24-30
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
Esther 3:10-15
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
Esther 8:5-17
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces:
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to the man to declare something is holy, and afterward to reconsider his vows.
Daniel 6:9
Therefore king Darius signed the written decree.
Daniel 6:14
Then the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.