⁵ He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river^(A) that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.^(B)

²⁰ Your servant Joab did this to change the present situation. My lord has wisdom^(A) like that of an angel of God—he knows everything that happens in the land.^(B)”

⁴⁴ So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

¹¹ May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase^(A) you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!^(B)

⁴ I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.

¹⁰ The priest is to examine them, and if there is a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white and if there is raw flesh in the swelling,