He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

未曾听完先回答的，便是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未听完就回话的，就是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未听完就回话的，就是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未听先答的人，自显愚昧和羞辱。

不先聆听就回答的，这就是他的愚妄和羞辱。

一个人未听完就回话，就是他的愚妄和羞愧。

未曾聽完先回答的，便是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未聽完就回話的，就是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未聽完就回話的，就是他的愚昧和羞辱。

未聽先答的人，自顯愚昧和羞辱。

不先聆聽就回答的，這就是他的愚妄和羞辱。

話未聽完就先回答的，那是他的愚妄和羞辱。

一個人未聽完就回話，就是他的愚妄和羞愧。

未聽而先應、乃愚乃辱、

言未聽而妄應、拙不藏而貽羞。

人聽言未畢、而先妄應、是為愚拙、必蒙恥辱、

To answer before listening— that is folly and shame.

To answer before listening is foolish and shameful.

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

Spouting off before listening to the facts is both shameful and foolish.

The one who gives an answer before he listens— this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

One who gives an answer before he hears, It is foolishness and shame to him.

He who answers a matter before he hears it, It is folly and shame to him.

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

The one who gives an answer before he listens— this is foolishness and disgrace for him.

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

The one who gives an answer before he listens– that is his folly and his shame.

“ Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

then you shall inquire, investigate, and ask diligently. Behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination was done among you,

It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.

Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him,“ Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”He answered,“ My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said,‘ I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king,’ because your servant is lame.He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”The king said to him,“ Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”Mephibosheth said to the king,“ Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

She said,“ If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to 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.For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew,“ See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty- third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty- seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.

Then the king said to Ziba,“ Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said,“ I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.The king said to Haman,“ The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.

Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.