<p class="poetry">He deprives the trusted advisers<n id="1" /> of speech<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and takes away the discernment<n id="3" /> of elders.p>

<p class="poetry">The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">than seven people who respond with good sense.<n id="2" />p>

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Teach me proper discernment<n id="1" /> and understanding!p> <p class="poetry">For I consider your commands to be reliable.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Like a gold ring<n id="1" /> in a pig&#8217;s snout<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">is<n id="3" /> a beautiful woman who rejects<n id="4" /> discretion.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Can food that is tasteless<n id="1" /> be eaten without salt?p> <p class="poetry">Or is there any taste in the white<n id="2" /> of an egg?p>

<p class="bodytext">The house of Israel<n id="1" /> called its name &#8220;manna.&#8221;<n id="2" /> It was like coriander seed and was white, and it tasted<n id="3" /> like wafers with honey.p>

He altered his behavior in their presence.<n id="1" /> Since he was in their power,<n id="2" /> he pretended to be insane, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting his saliva run down his beard.p>

Praised be your good judgment! May you yourself be rewarded<n id="1" /> for having prevented me this day from shedding blood and taking matters into my own hands!

<t /><p class="psasuper">Written by David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, causing the king to send him away.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will praise<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> at all times;p> <p class="poetry">my mouth will continually praise him.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed.p> <p class="poetry">It has never been taken into exile.p> <p class="poetry">Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs,p> <p class="poetry">never poured out from one jar to another.p> <p class="poetry">They are like wine which tastes like it always did,p> <p class="poetry">whose aroma has remained unchanged.<n id="1" />p>

He issued a proclamation and said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;In Nineveh, by the decree of the king and his nobles: No human or animal, cattle or sheep, is to taste anything; they must not eat and they must not drink water.