¹⁶ So let the Lord be judge, and give a decision between me and you, and see and give support to my cause, and keep me from falling into your hands.

¹⁷ And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.

⁴ Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

²⁵ How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

¹ By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.

¹¹ A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.

¹⁵ For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.

¹⁰ But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.