Ecclesiastes 7:22 - Revised Standard Version CI

²² your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² For often your own heart knows that you have likewise cursed others.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Common English Bible

²² After all, you know that you’ve often cursed others yourself!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.

Ecclesiastes 7:22 Cross References

1 Kings 2:44

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

Ecclesiastes 7:21

Do not give heed to all the things that men say, lest you 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 thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

James 3:9

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