Your heart knows that many times you yourself have spoken a curse against others.
The king also said to Shimei, “You know all the wickedness in your heart and what you did to David my father. Therefore the Lord shall return your wickedness on your own head.
Moreover, do not take to heart everything that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
All these matters I have tested by wisdom. I said, “I will be wise,” but wisdom has eluded me.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.
With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.