Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Ecclesiastes 7:21

Context
NETBible

Also, do not pay attention to everything that people 1  say; otherwise, 2  you might even hear 3  your servant cursing you.

XREF

2Sa 16:10; 2Sa 19:19; Isa 29:21; 1Co 13:5-7

NET © Notes

tn Heb “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

tn Heb “so that you do not hear…”; or “lest you hear….”

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).



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