Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
In Context
20Because there is not a righteous man on earth that doth good and sinneth not.
22For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:27and the sons of worthlessness have said, 'What! this one doth save us!' and they despise him, and have not brought to him a present; and he is as one deaf.
2 Samuel 19:19and saith unto the king, 'Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, — for the king to set [it] unto his heart;
Isaiah 29:21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.
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 →