To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my master is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of Elohim, to know all things that are in the earth.
Then thine handmaid said, The word of my master the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of Elohim, so is my master the king to discern good and bad: therefore Yahweh thy Elohim will be with thee.
Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself wouldest have set thyself against me.
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my master the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of Elohim: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.