“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here,” she says to those who lack understanding.

Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

“But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me.” The Lord is speaking!

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”