Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you:
Updated King James 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
20For there is not a just man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.
22For oftentimes also yours own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:27But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought no presents. But he held his peace.
2 Samuel 19:19And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
Isaiah 29:21That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.
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 →