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. "
— Ecclesiastes 7:22, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.”
“for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. ”
“for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.”
“For you know in your own heart that you also have cursed others many times.”
“But do not apply thy heart to all words that are spoken: lest perhaps thou hear thy servant reviling thee.”
“Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.”
“For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.”
It is good for you to support a just man. Furthermore, you should not withdraw your hand from him, for whoever fears God, neglects nothing.
Wisdom has strengthened the wise more than ten princes of a city.
But there is no just man on earth, who does good and does not sin.
So then, do not attach your heart to every word that is spoken, lest perhaps you may hear your servant speaking ill of you.
For your conscience knows that you, too, have repeatedly spoken evil of others.
I have tested everything in wisdom. I have said: “I will be wise.” And wisdom withdrew farther from me,
so much more than it was before. Wisdom is very profound, so who shall reveal her?