For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.
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Gill's Exposition
For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth,.... Or "thy conscience", as the Vulgate Latin version, which is as a thousand witnesses; which, if a man attends to, he will be convinced of his own…
Curse ... cursed - Rather, speak evil of ... spoken evil of.
Solomon, in these verses, recommends wisdom to us as the best antidote against those distempers of mind which we are liable to, by reason of the vanity and vexation of spirit that there are in the…
Cambridge Bible
For oftentimes also thine own heart The rule of the previous verse is backed by an appeal to a man's own conscience, "mutato nomine de te fabula narratur." "Thou too art not free from the habit of…
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