Proverbs 18:13 (BSB)

He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:13

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:13: See here how men often expose themselves by that very thing by which they hope to gain applause. 1. Some take a pride in being quick. They answer a matter before they hear it, hear it out, nay, as soon as they but hear of it.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:13: He that answereth a matter before he heareth it,.... Who is impatient, and cannot wait to hear it out, but breaks in upon the speaker before he has finished what he has to say; or is rash and precipitate, and returns an answer at once, without weighing and considering, and thoroughly understanding, what is said: it is folly and shame unto him; his answer must...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:13: Hasty speech evinces self-conceit, and ensures shame (Pro 26:12).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 18:13: Pro 18:13 13 If one giveth an answer before he heareth, It is to him as folly and shame. The part. stands here differently from what it does at Pro 13:18, where it is subj., and at Pro 17:14, where it is pred. of a simple sentence; it is also here, along with what appertains to it in accordance with the Semitic idiom, subj. to 13b (one who answers ...