Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou 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.
King James 2000
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse you, and you be found 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.
Themes
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Against Slander
9 Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God. 10 Accuse not a servant unto his lord, Lest he disesteem thee, and thou be found guilty. 11 A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:9
Take heed to thee lest there be a word in thy heart -- worthless, saying, Near is the seventh year, the year of release; and thine eye is evil against thy needy brother, and thou dost not give to him, and he hath called concerning thee unto Jehovah, and it hath been in thee sin;
Deuteronomy 23:15
'Thou dost not shut up a servant unto his lord, who is delivered unto thee from his lord;
1 Samuel 22:9-10
And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, 'I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub,
1 Samuel 24:9
And David saith to Saul, 'Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil?
1 Samuel 26:19
And, now, let, I pray thee, my lord the king hear the words of his servant: if Jehovah hath moved thee against me, let Him accept a present; and if the sons of men -- cursed are they before Jehovah, for they have cast me out to-day from being admitted into the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.
1 Samuel 30:15
And David saith unto him, 'Dost thou bring me down unto this troop?' and he saith, 'Swear to me by God -- thou dost not put me to death, nor dost thou shut me up into the hand of my lord -- and I bring thee down unto this troop.'
2 Samuel 16:1-4
And David hath passed on a little from the top, and lo, Ziba, servant of Mephibosheth -- to meet him, and a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and a hundred of summer-fruit, and a bottle of wine.
2 Samuel 19:26-27
And he saith, 'My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for thy servant said, I saddle for me the ass, and ride on it, and go with the king, for thy servant is lame;
2 Chronicles 24:22-24
and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, 'Jehovah doth see, and require.'
Proverbs 11:26
Whoso is withholding corn, the people execrate him, And a blessing is for the head of him who is selling.
Proverbs 24:23-24
These also are for the wise: -- To discern faces in judgment is not good.
Proverbs 28:27
Whoso is giving to the poor hath no lack, And whoso is hiding his eyes multiplied curses.
Ecclesiastes 7:21
Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.
Daniel 3:8-18
Therefore at that time drawn near have certain Chaldeans, and accused the Jews;
Daniel 6:13
Then they have answered, yea, they are saying before the king, that, 'Daniel, who is of the sons of the Removed of Judah, hath not placed on thee, O king, any regard, nor on the interdict that thou hast signed, and three times in a day he is seeking his petition.'
Daniel 6:24
And the king hath said, and they have brought those men who had accused Daniel, and to the den of lions they have cast them, they, their sons, and their wives; and they have not come to the lower part of the den till that the lions have power over them, and all their bones they have broken small.
Romans 14:4
Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.