7:21 Also, do not pay attention to everything that people 1 say;
otherwise, 2 you might even hear 3 your servant cursing you.
1 tn Heb “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Heb “so that you do not hear…”; or “lest you hear….”
3 tn The imperfect tense verb תִשְׁמַע (tishma’; from שָׁמַע [shama’, “to hear”]) functions in a modal sense, denoting possibility: “you might hear” (see IBHS 508 §31.4e).