But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back ¹  twice by now!”

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living? ¹ 

Joab replied, “As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit ¹  of their brothers!”

On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, ¹  you would not have solved my riddle!”