text: "Idle" words, not "ideal" words. I think it refers to careless things we say that hurt people far more than we expect or intend to. \n\nI am sure God will take into account our intentions, since He knows our hearts, but we are certainly responsible for some of the results, since it is like firing a gun when we cannot see what we are aiming at. I seem to recall there is a Proverb (26:18) where it says that a man who says hurtful lies and then tries to weasel out of it by saying he was only joking is like someone who goes around shooting flaming arrows at random-- in other words, a danger to the entire community.