17 Your servant thought: May the word of my lord the king bring relief, for my lord the king is able to discern the good and the bad like the angel of God.(A) May the Lord your God be with you.”

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17 “And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king secure my inheritance, for my lord the king is like an angel(A) of God in discerning(B) good and evil. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

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20 Joab your servant has done this to address the issue indirectly,[a] but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, knowing everything on earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:20 Lit to go around the face of the matter

20 Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom(A) like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.(B)

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