Ecclesiastes 7:21

WEB

²¹Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;

KJV

²¹Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

BSB

²¹Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

FBV

²¹Don't take to heart everything that people say, otherwise you may hear your servant talking badly^[+] about you,

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Extra References

Proverbs 30:10

¹⁰“Don’t slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.

Isaiah 29:21

²¹who cause a person to be indicted by a word, and lay a snare for one who reproves in the gate, and who deprive the innocent of justice with false testimony.

2 Samuel 16:10

¹⁰The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

¹⁹He said to the king, “Don’t let my lord impute iniquity to me, or 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.

1 Corinthians 13:5-7

⁵doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; ⁶doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.