He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

先诉情由的，似乎有理；但邻舍来到，就察出实情。

先诉情由的，似乎有理；另一人来到，就察出实情。

先诉情由的，似乎有理；另一人来到，就察出实情。

先告状的看似有理，一经对质真相大白。

首先陈述情由的，似乎有理，等他的邻舍来到，才可以查明实情。

争讼中先陈说的虽显得公义；但对方一来，就能查验他的话。

先訴情由的，似乎有理；但鄰舍來到，就察出實情。

先訴情由的，似乎有理；另一人來到，就察出實情。

先訴情由的，似乎有理；另一人來到，就察出實情。

先告狀的看似有理，一經對質真相大白。

首先陳述情由的，似乎有理，等他的鄰舍來到，才可以查明實情。

先訴情由的似乎有理，還要別人來審查它。

爭訟中先陳說的雖顯得公義；但對方一來，就能查驗他的話。

先赴愬者、其理似直、鄰里繼至、則得其情、

先赴訴者、其理似直、有後至者、爾當詳察之。

人有詞訟、先至者訴其由、雖似理直、必待後至者之訴、方可究察、

In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes forward and cross- examines.

In court, the first one to speak seems right. Then someone else comes forward and questions him.

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

The first to speak in court sounds right— until the cross examination begins.

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him.

The first one to plead his cause seems right, Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

He that pleadeth his cause first seemeth just; But his neighbor cometh and searcheth him out.

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

[ He that is] first in his own cause[ seemeth] just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

The first to state his case seems right, until his opponent begins to cross-examine him.

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

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.

When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.The king said to Ziba,“ What do you mean by these?” Ziba said,“ The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”The king said,“ Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king,“ Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said,‘ Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”

In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.