Ecclesiastes 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Do not give heed to everything that people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Do not give heed to everything that is said, lest you hear your servant cursing you–

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Also take not heed unto all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee;

Common English Bible

²¹ Don’t worry about all the things people say, so you don’t hear your servant cursing you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ For there is no just man upon earth, that doth good, and sinneth not.

Ecclesiastes 7:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:10

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

2 Samuel 19:19

and said to the king, “May my lord not hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; may the king not bear it in mind.

Proverbs 30:10

Do not slander a servant to a master, lest the servant curse you, and you be held guilty.

Ecclesiastes 7:22

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

Isaiah 29:21

those who cause a person to lose a lawsuit, who set a trap for the arbiter in the gate and undermine justice for the one in the right.

1 Samuel 10:27

But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” They despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. But there were seven thousand men who had escaped from the Ammonites and had entered Jabesh-gilead.