23 But his wife said to him: “If Jehovah had been delighted only to put us to death, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hand,+ and he would not have shown us all these things, and he would not as now have let us hear anything like this.”+

31 And let this not become to you a cause for staggering* or a stumbling block to the heart of my lord, both by the shedding of blood without cause+ and by having [the hand of] my lord* [itself] come to his salvation.+ And Jehovah will certainly do good to my lord, and you must remember+ your slave girl.”

16 And a wise woman+ began to call from the city: “Listen, men, listen! Say, please, to Joʹab, ‘Come near as far as here, and let me speak to you.’”

8 If I have found favor in the king’s eyes+ and if to the king it does seem good to grant my petition and to act on my request, let the king and Haʹman come to the banquet that I shall hold for them [tomorrow],* and tomorrow I shall do according to the king’s word.”+

31 The words of Lemʹu·el* the king, the weighty message+ that his mother gave to him in correction:+

26 And this [man] started to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Pris·cilʹla and Aqʹui·la+ heard him, they took him into their company and expounded the way of God more correctly to him.

3 Likewise let the aged women+ be reverent in behavior, not slanderous,+ neither enslaved to a lot of wine, teachers of what is good;