¹⁴ For we ^(A)will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not ^(B)take away a life; but He ^(C)devises means, so that His banished ones are not ^[a]expelled from Him. ¹⁵ Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant. ¹⁶ For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the ^(D)inheritance of God.’