Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Now therefore, my master, as Yahweh liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing Yahweh hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my master, be as Nabal.
That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my master, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my master hath avenged himself: but when Yahweh shall have dealt well with my master, then remember thine handmaid.