Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;
New American Standard Bible
Also, do not
King James Version
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Holman Bible
Don’t pay attention
International Standard Version
Don't listen to everything that is spoken you may hear your servant cursing you,
A Conservative Version
Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.
Amplified
Also, do not take seriously everything that is said, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you,
Bible in Basic English
Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
Darby Translation
Also give not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.
Julia Smith Translation
Also to all the words that shall be spoken thou shalt not give thy heart, that thou shalt not hear thy servant cursing thee.
King James 2000
Also take not to heart all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you.
Modern King James verseion
Also do not listen to all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take not heed unto every word that is spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
NET Bible
Also, do not pay attention to everything that people say; otherwise, you might even hear your servant cursing you.
New Heart English Bible
Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
The Emphasized Bible
Moreover, not to all the words which men speak, do thou apply thy heart, - lest thou hear thine own servant reviling thee!
Webster
Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
World English Bible
Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
Youngs Literal Translation
Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.
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Interlinear
Nathan
Leb
Dabar
Dabar
Shama`
`ebed
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 7:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom Is Valuable, But No One Is Completely Righteous
20 Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. 21 Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee; 22 for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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Cross References
Proverbs 30:10
Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
2 Samuel 16:10
And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he curseth, and because Jehovah hath said unto him, Curse David; who then shall say, Wherefore hast thou done so?
2 Samuel 19:19
And he said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.
Isaiah 29:21
that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
1 Corinthians 13:5-7
doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;