 | William Jones - Sermons, English - 1801 - 506 pages
...as your advisers have done before you. To prevent which, I recommend those words of the wise man — He that answereth a matter,, before he heareth it, it is folly, and shame unto him *. A Protestant who enters upon a mock enquiry with these prejudices and anticipations,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...his words. Job xiii. S. Ver. 28. Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is accounted wise. xviii. 13, He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame to him. xxi. 23. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from trouble. xxix.... | |
 | David Bogue, James Bennett - Dissenters - 1808 - 492 pages
...otherwise well-informed have exposed themselves to the severe censure of the inspired preacher, who said, " he that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is? folly and shame to him." A modern historian, whose peculiar connexions should have preserved him from this disgrace,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 540 pages
...for themselves ? Doth not that folly and shame belong to you which is spoken of in Prov. xviii. 13. " He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." This is utterly an iniquity, a very unchristian practice, which commonly prevails,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Education - 1813 - 368 pages
...Solomon's rule with you, and let your correspondents fairly finish his speech before you reply ; for he that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. Proverbs xviii. 13. A little watchfulness, care and practice in younger life, will... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...it, and is safe. 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility. 13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity ; but a wounded spirit who can bear?... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...take Solomon's rule with you, and let your correspondent fairly finish his speech before youVeply; for he that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him, Prov. xviii. 13. I A little watchfulness, care, and practice, in younger life, will... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...his own conceit. 12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour « humility. 13 He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit whp can bear?... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...Demonstration — and consequently, what regard Mr. HUTCHIXSON'S Claim may deserve to have paid to it. He that answereth- a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. PROV. xviii. 13. Sou species virium et qualitates physicas, sed quantitates et proportiones... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1818 - 432 pages
...and domestic life. It ought to be deeply engraven on the mini and memory of man and woman, that, " he that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame . unto him." 4. In the state of matrimony, hardly any thing i* more discomforting, or more deadening... | |
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He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. 
