Ecclesiastes 7:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For often your own heart knows that you have likewise cursed others.

American Standard Version (1901)

for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Common English Bible

After all, you know that you’ve often cursed others yourself!

Catholic Public Domain Version

So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.

Ecclesiastes 7:22 Cross References

1 Kings 2:44

The king also said to Shimei, “You know in your own heart all the evil that you did to my father David, so the Lord will bring back your evil on your own head.

Ecclesiastes 7:21

Do not give heed to everything that people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you;

Ecclesiastes 7:23

All this I have tested by wisdom; I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, made in the likeness of God.