<p class="poetry">&#8220;Whoever is simple, let him turn in here,&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">she says to those who lack understanding.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Better is a person of humble standing<n id="1" /> who nevertheless has a servant,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">than one who pretends to be somebody important<n id="3" /> yet has no food.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;But surely I gave<n id="1" /> you no food to eat in any of your cities;p> <p class="poetry">you lacked food everywhere you live.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Still you did not come back to me.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

May his blood whirl over<n id="1" /> the head of Joab and the entire house of his father!<n id="2" /> May the males of Joab&#8217;s house<n id="3" /> never cease to have<n id="4" /> someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle<n id="5" /> or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!&#8221;p>