he said to her, In this time, as in time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she answered, Do not thou, my lord, the man of God, I beseech, do not thou lie to thine handmaid.
Forsooth I said in the out-passing of my soul; I am cast out from the face of thine eyes. Therefore thou heardest the voice of my prayer; while I cried to thee.
God forbid. For God is soothfast, [or true], but each man a liar; as it is written, That thou be justified in thy words, and overcome, when thou art deemed.
And David said in his heart, Sometime I shall fall in one day in the hand of Saul; whether it is not better, that I flee, and be saved in the land of Philistines, that Saul despair, and cease to seek me in all the ends of Israel; therefore flee we his hands.