In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
Men of low estate are but a breath, men of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?