²¹ Do not give heed to everything that people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you;

⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;^{(A) 6} it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.^{(B) 7} It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.^(C)

¹⁰ But the king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, ‘Curse David,’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”^(A)

¹⁹ and said to the king, “May my lord not hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem; may the king not bear it in mind.^(A)