Ecclesiastes 7:21
But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
In Context
20Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:27Yet the sons of Belial said, “How could this one be able to save us?” And they despised him, and they brought him no presents. But he pretended not to hear them.
2 Samuel 19:19said to him: “May you not impute to me, my lord, the iniquity, nor call to mind the injuries, of your servant in the day that you, my lord the king, departed from Jerusalem. And may you not store it up in your heart, O king.
Isaiah 29:21For they caused men to sin by a word, and they supplanted him who argued against them at the gates, and they turned away from justice in vain.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.… Read the whole commentary →