{"id":9661,"date":"2026-03-19T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T17:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:11:23","slug":"ecclesiastes-720-22-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"Ecclesiastes 7:20-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poetry top-1\">\n<h3 class=\"line\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-17450\" class=\"text Eccl-7-20\"><sup class=\"versenum\">20\u00a0<\/sup>For\u00a0there is not a just man on earth who does good a<\/span><span class=\"text Eccl-7-20\">nd does not sin.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-1\">\n<h3 class=\"line\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-17451\" class=\"text Eccl-7-21\"><sup class=\"versenum\">21\u00a0<\/sup>Also do not take to heart everything people say, l<\/span><span class=\"text Eccl-7-21\">est you hear your servant cursing you.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"line\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span id=\"en-NKJV-17452\" class=\"text Eccl-7-22\"><sup class=\"versenum\">22\u00a0<\/sup>For many times, also, your own heart has known t<\/span><span class=\"text Eccl-7-22\">hat even you have cursed others.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>It is a universal truth (v.20)\u2014No one is without sin (1 Kings 8:46; Proverbs 20:9; Isaiah 64:6; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=282\">Romans 3:23<\/a><\/span>; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=314\">5:12<\/a><\/span>).<\/h3>\n<h3>We should not be concerned with what others say about us, but only with what God says about us (<a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2240\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1 Corinthians 4:3-5<\/span><\/a>).<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">[Wisdom] is needed because we are all guilty of sin. Only wisdom can lead a man to profit in the presence of this universal malady. Wisdom will aid in the establishment of self-control, which will keep man from being overly offended when he observes sin in the lives of others or when he is victimized by the sins of others. When he is maligned by others, wisdom teaches him that he has maligned as well, and therefore he does not allow the words of others to detract him from his major objective, the practice of that wisdom which leads to profit. \u2014 KJV Commentary, page 747.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20\u00a0For\u00a0there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin. 21\u00a0Also do not take to heart everything people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22\u00a0For many times, also, your own heart has known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=9661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecclesiastes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9662,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}