"Nowthe reasonI have cometo speakthiswordto my lordthe kingis that the peoplehave mademe afraid;so your maidservantsaid,'Let me nowspeakto the king,perhapsthe kingwill performthe requestof his maidservant.
"For we will surelydieand are like waterspilledon the groundwhichcannotbe gatheredup again. Yet Goddoes not takeaway life,but planswaysso that the banishedonewill not be castout from him.
For the kingwill hearand deliverhis maidservantfrom the handof the manwho would destroybothme and my sonfrom the inheritanceof God.'
"Ifthe scourgekillssuddenly,He mocksthe despairof the innocent.
