21 Also ¹take no heed unto │ Besides, to all those arguments all words that are spoken; │ by which men direct themselves, lest thou hear thy servant │ do not give much heed, just as curse thee: │ thou hadst better not listen to │ thy servant when he curses thee; ¹ _Hebrew_ give not thy │ heart. │ (21.) =Moreover= (an additional reason), to =all the words= (הדברים, in the usual sense, and very emphatic as followed by the corresponding verb) =which they speak= (reason about) =do not give thine heart= (because they are not worth thinking about: the reason follows), =which= (repeated, equivalent to ‘they are such that’) =not dost thou hear= (‘as thou wouldest not listen to if’) =with respect to thy servant= he was =cursing thee.= 22 For oftentimes also thine │ because thou knowest that own heart knoweth that thou │ besides, times out of mind thyself likewise hast cursed │ thyself also hast cursed――some others. │ one else. (22.) =For moreover, times many knows= (but the LXX. read ירע, κακώσει, ‘afflicts,’ that is, the servant does so. Symmachus also reads ὅτι πρὸς πλεόνακις καιροῦ πονηρεύσεται καρδία σου, supporting the LXX.; the Syriac, on the other hand, reads as the Hebrew. If, therefore, ירע was the real reading, the change took place in ancient times) =thy heart= (which is nominative to ידע) =which= (the third repetition of the relative; it ought therefore to be taken in the meaning of ‘and this,’) =also thou= (which is emphatic if we follow the Masorets, who point אַתָּ in which apparently they are supported by both the LXX. and Symmachus) =hast cursed others.=