WIST QuotationsThis is foolish and disgraceful.
[מֵשִׁ֣יב דָּ֭בָר בְּטֶ֣רֶם יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִוֶּ֥לֶת הִיא־ל֝֗וֹ וּכְלִמָּֽה׃]
The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 20. Proverbs 18:13 (Prov 18:13) [RJPS (2023 ed.)]
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Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament - Book 20. Proverbs 18:13ff (Prov 18:13) [RJPS (2023 ed.)] | WIST Quotations
To answer before listening -- This is foolish and disgraceful. [מֵשִׁ֣יב דָּ֭בָר בְּטֶ֣רֶם יִשְׁמָ֑ע אִוֶּ֥לֶת הִיא־ל֝֗וֹ וּכְלִמָּֽה׃] See La Rochefoucauld (1665). (Source (Greek)). Alternate translations: He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. [KJV (1611)] To retort without first listening is folly…