Ecclesiastes 10:20
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich even in your bedroom, for a bird of the air may carry your words, and a winged creature may report your speech.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Note thought: or, conscience
Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Curse
- Exodus 22:28; Isaiah 8:21; Acts 23:5
- thought
- or, conscience.
- Ecclesiastes 7:21, 22; Luke 19:40
- in thy bedchamber
- Luke 10:40; Luke 12:2, 3