Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also take no heed unto all the words that are spoken: lest thou hear thy servant cursing thee.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
In Context
20For no man is so righteous upon earth, that he should do always good, and never sin.—
22For oftentimes also doth thy own heart know that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.—
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:27But the worthless men said, In what can this help us? And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he acted as though he were deaf.
2 Samuel 19:19(19:20) And he said unto the king, Let not my Lord impute it unto me as iniquity, neither do thou remember that in which thy servant acted perversely on the day that my Lord the king went forth out of Jerusalem, so that the king should lay it to his heart.
Isaiah 29:21That cause mankind to sin by [their] word; and lay a snare for him that reproveth [them] in the gate; and pervert through fraud the cause of the just.
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 →