Ecclesiastes 7:22
So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
In Context
21But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
23For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
Cross References
1 Kings 2:44And the king said to Shimei: “You know all the evil, of which your heart is conscious, which you did to David, my father. The Lord has repaid your wickedness upon your own head.”
Matthew 18:32Then his lord called him, and he said to him: ‘You wicked servant, I forgave you all your debt, because you pleaded with me.
James 3:9By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God.
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 →