for your heart knows that many times you too have mocked others.
With it we bless our Adonai and Father, and with it we curse people, who are made in the image of God.
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, and slander.
The king added to Shimei: “You know all the evil, which your heart should acknowledge, that you did to my father David. Therefore Adonai will return your evil on your own head.
Also, do not pay attention to every word people say, otherwise you might hear your servant mocking you—
All this I have tested with wisdom and I said, “I determined to be wise”—but it was far from me.