Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 verse 22 Holy Bible
for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
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For also thine own heart knoweth that oftentimes thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
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For many times also hath thy heart known that thou thyself also hast reviled others.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) Thine own heart knoweth.--Ecclesiastes 8:5; 1Kings 2:44; Proverbs 14:10.
