⁴ Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

³ Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

⁷ Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

²⁷ And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

³⁰ And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty.

³¹ And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.

³² And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.