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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

人所說的一切話，都不要放在心上，因你可能聽見僕人咒罵你。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
人 所 说 的 一 切 话 ， 你 不 要 放 在 心 上 ， 恐 怕 听 见 你 的 仆 人 咒 诅 你 。

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Wisdom is better when it comes with money. They both help those who are alive. ¹² Wisdom is like money: they both help. But wisdom is better, because it can save whoever has it. ¹³ Look at what God has done: No one can straighten what he has bent. ¹⁴ When life is good, enjoy it. But when life is hard, remember: God gives good times and hard times, and no one knows what tomorrow will bring. ¹⁵ In my useless life I have seen both of these: I have seen good people die in spite of their goodness and evil people live a long time in spite of their evil. ¹⁶ Don't be too right, and don't be too wise. Why destroy yourself? ¹⁷ Don't be too wicked, and don't be foolish. Why die before your time? ¹⁸ It is good to grab the one and not let go of the other; those who honor God will hold them both. ¹⁹ Wisdom makes a person stronger than ten leaders in a city. ²⁰ Surely there is not a good person on earth who always does good and never sins.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

take no heed: Heb. give not thine heart, 2 Samuel 19:19

unto: 2 Samuel 16:10, Isaiah 29:21, 1 Corinthians 13:5-7

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 24:9 - General Ecclesiastes 10:20 - thought

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
he said to Noah, "Because people have made the earth full of violence, I will destroy all of them from the earth.

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:3
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came.

Genesis 7:7
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:15
Every creature that had the breath of life came to Noah in the boat in groups of two.

Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for forty days, and as it rose it lifted the boat off the ground.

Genesis 7:20
It continued to rise until it was more than twenty feet above the mountains.

Genesis 7:22
So everything on dry land that had the breath of life in it died.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken,.... Seeing so it is, that imperfection attends the best of men, no man is wise at all times, foolish words and unguarded expressions will sometimes drop from him, which it is better to take no notice of; they should not be strictly attended to, and closely examined, since they will not bear it. A man should not listen to everything that is said of himself or others; he should not curiously inquire what men say of him; and what he himself hears he should take no notice of; it is often best to let it pass, and not call it over again; to feign the hearing of a thing, or make as if you did not hear it; for oftentimes, by rehearsing a matter, or taking up words spoken, a deal of trouble and mischief follows; a man should not "give [his] heart" f to it, as it is in the Hebrew text; he should not give his mind to what is said of him, but be careless and indifferent about it; much less should he lay it up in his mind, and meditate revenge for it. The Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, restrain it to words spoken by wicked men, whose tongues are their own, and will say what they please; among these may be ranked, more especially, detractors, whisperers, backbiters, and talebearers, who should not be listened unto and encouraged; though there is no necessity of thus limiting the sense, which is more general, and may include what is said by any man, even good men, since they have their infirmities; it seems chiefly to have respect to defamatory words, by what follows;

lest thou hear thy servant curse thee; speak slightly, scoffingly, and reproachfully of thee, as Shimei of David; which must be very disagreeable and vexatious to hear from one so mean and abject, and who is dependent on him, earns his bread of him, and gets his livelihood in his service; and to whom, perhaps, he has been kind, and so is guilty of base ingratitude, which aggravates the more; or, if not, if what he says is just, to hear it must give great uneasiness.

f אל תתן לבך "ne des tuum cor", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Curse ... cursed - Rather, speak evil of ... spoken evil of.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken — This is good advice, and much for every man's peace through life.

Thy servant curse thee — מקללך mekallelecha, make light of thee, speak evil of thee.