Ecclesiastes 7:22
New International Version
for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

New Living Translation
For you know how often you yourself have cursed others.

English Standard Version
Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Berean Standard Bible
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

King James Bible
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

New King James Version
For many times, also, your own heart has known That even you have cursed others.

New American Standard Bible
for you know that even you have cursed others many times as well.

NASB 1995
For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.

NASB 1977
For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.

Legacy Standard Bible
For your heart also knows that you likewise have many times cursed others.

Amplified Bible
for you also know that you too have cursed others many times.

Christian Standard Bible
for in your heart you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for you know that many times you yourself have cursed others.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For your heart knows you also have insulted others many times

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For many times he shall trespass against thee, and repeatedly shall he afflict thine heart; for thus also hast thou cursed others.

Contemporary English Version
Haven't you cursed many others?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy conscience knoweth that thou also hast often spoken evil of others.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your conscience knows that you have cursed others many times.

Good News Translation
and you know yourself that you have insulted other people many times.

International Standard Version
since you also know how often you have cursed others.

JPS Tanakh 1917
for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Literal Standard Version
For many times also has your heart known that you yourself have also reviled others.

Majority Standard Bible
For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

New American Bible
for your heart knows that you have many times cursed others.

NET Bible
For you know in your own heart that you also have cursed others many times.

New Revised Standard Version
your heart knows that many times you have yourself cursed others.

New Heart English Bible
for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

Webster's Bible Translation
For often also thy own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

World English Bible
for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.

Young's Literal Translation
For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Limits of Human Wisdom
21Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you. 22For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others. 23All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.…

Cross References
Ecclesiastes 7:21
Do not pay attention to every word that is spoken, or you may hear your servant cursing you.

Ecclesiastes 7:23
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, "I resolve to be wise." But it was beyond me.


Treasury of Scripture

For oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed others.

also

1 Kings 2:44
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father: therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Matthew 18:32-35
Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: …

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Ecclesiastes 7
1. remedies against vanity are, a good name
2. mortification
7. patience
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(22) Thine own heart knoweth.--Ecclesiastes 8:5; 1Kings 2:44; Proverbs 14:10.

Verse 22. - Oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. The appeal to a man's own conscience follows. The fact that we often speak ill of others should make us less open to take offence at what is said of ourselves, and prepared to expect unfavorable comments. The Lord has said, "Judge not, that ye be not judged; for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you" (Matthew 7:1, 2). This is a universal law. "Who is he," asks Ben-Sirs, "that hath not offended with his tongue?" (Ecclus. 19:16). Septuagint, Ὅτι πλειστάκις πονηρεύσεταί σε καὶ καθόδους πολλὰς κακώσει καρδίαν σου ὄτι ὡς καίγε σὺ κατηράσω ἑτέρους, "For many times he [thy servant] shall act ill to thee, and in many ways shall afflict thine heart, for even thou also hast cursed others." This seems to be a combination of two renderings of the passage. "It is the praise of perfect greatness to meet hostile treatment, without bravely and within mercifully some things are more quickly dismissed from our hearts if we know our own misdemeanors against our neighbors. For whilst we reflect what we have been towards others, we are the less concerned that others should have proved such persons towards ourselves, be cause the injustice of another avenges in us what our conscience justly accuses in itself" (St. Gregory, 'Moral.,' 22:26).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you know
יָדַ֣ע (yā·ḏa‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

in your heart
לִבֶּ֑ךָ (lib·be·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

that
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

many
רַבּ֖וֹת (rab·bō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

times
פְּעָמִ֥ים (pə·‘ā·mîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 6471: A beat, foot, anvil, occurrence

you yourself
אַתָּ֖ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

have cursed
קִלַּ֥לְתָּ (qil·lal·tā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7043: To be slight, swift or trifling

others.
אֲחֵרִֽים׃ (’ă·ḥê·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 312: Hinder, next, other


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