13 If one gives an answer (A)before he hears,
    it is his folly and shame.

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13 He who returns a word before he will hear,
    folly itself belongs to him as well as[a] shame.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 18:13 Hebrew “and”

17 The one who states his case first seems right,
    until the other comes and examines him.

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17 The first in his dispute is deemed righteous,
    but his neighbor will come and examine him.

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