As a vessel of snow in a day of harvest, `So is' a faithful ambassador to those sending him, And the soul of his masters he refresheth.
A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.
To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.
`As' cold waters for a weary soul, So `is' a good report from a far country.
He is cutting off feet, he is drinking injury, Who is sending things by the hand of a fool.
And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, turn back from the sons of Reuben, and from the sons of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, unto the sons of Israel, and bring them back word;