“Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 7 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.