Ecclesiastes 7:21
Don't take to heart everything that people say, otherwise you may hear your servant talking badly about you,
Free Bible 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
20There's not one good person in all the world who always does what is right and never sins.
22for you know how many times you yourself have talked badly about others!
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:27But some obnoxious men asked, “How could this man save us?” They hated him and didn't bring him any gifts; but Saul did not retaliate.
2 Samuel 19:19“Your Majesty, please forgive me and disregard the wrong that I, your servant, did when Your Majesty left Jerusalem. Please forget all about it.
Isaiah 29:21those who say things to trick others into sin, those who trap people by legal arguments in court, those who lie to mislead the innocent.
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 →