Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to [the] Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand [it;] and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who [are] on the wall."

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who [was] over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with [their] clothes torn, and told him the words of [the] Rabshakeh.

But I, like a deaf [man,] do not hear; And [I am] like a mute [who] does not open his mouth.

For in You, O LORD, I hope; You will hear, O Lord my God.

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, "I will guard my ways, Lest I sin with my tongue; I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle, While the wicked are before me."

" He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked [man only] harms himself.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.

Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it [is] an evil time.

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.