Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
New American Standard Bible
Or he will
King James Version
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
Holman Bible
or he will curse you,
International Standard Version
Don't lie about a servant to his master, or that servant will curse you and you will pay for it.
A Conservative Version
Slander not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
American Standard Version
Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
Amplified
Do not slander or malign a servant before his master [stay out of another’s personal life],
Or he will curse you [for your interference], and you will be found guilty.
Bible in Basic English
Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.
Darby Translation
Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not slander the servant to his lord lest he shall curse thee, and thou wert guilty.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not slander a servant to his master, or else he will curse you and you will be guilty.
Modern King James verseion
Do not accuse a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he speak evil of thee also, and thou be hurt.
NET Bible
Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you are found guilty.
New Heart English Bible
"Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
The Emphasized Bible
Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he revile thee, and thou be found guilty.
Webster
Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
World English Bible
"Don't slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
Youngs Literal Translation
Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty.
Themes
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Slander
9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found guilty. 11 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:9
Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.
Deuteronomy 23:15
You shall not deliver unto his master the servant who has escaped from his master unto you:
1 Samuel 22:9-10
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
1 Samuel 24:9
And David said to Saul, Why hear you men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?
1 Samuel 26:19
Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel 30:15
And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this company.
2 Samuel 16:1-4
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
2 Samuel 19:26-27
And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because your servant is lame.
2 Chronicles 24:22-24
Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and repay it.
Proverbs 11:26
He that withholds grain, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that sells it.
Proverbs 24:23-24
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have partiality in judgment.
Proverbs 28:27
He that gives unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also take not to heart all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you:
Daniel 3:8-18
Therefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
Daniel 6:13
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regards not you, O king, nor the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.
Daniel 6:24
And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came at the bottom of the den.
Romans 14:4
Who are you that judge another man's servant? to his own master he stands or falls. Yea, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.