New Revised Standard Version
The one who first states a case seems right, until the other comes and cross-examines.

Contemporary English Version
You may think you have won your case in court, until your opponent speaks.

New American Bible
Those who plead the case first seem to be in the right; then the opponent comes and cross-examines them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.

The just is first accuser of himself: his friend cometh, and shall search him.

Proverbs 18:13 He that answereth before he heareth, sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion.

2 Samuel 16:1-3 And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold Siba the servant of Miphiboseth came to meet him with two asses, laden with two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs, and a vessel of wine. . . .

2 Samuel 19:24-27 And Miphiboseth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard: nor washed his garments from the day that the king went out, until the day of his return in peace. . . .

Acts 24:5,6,12,13 We have found this to be a pestilent man and raising seditions among all the Jews throughout the world: and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes. . . .