⁶ But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁹ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

⁵ Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he who can do anything against you.

⁴ If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don't leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

¹⁹ A servant can't be corrected by words. Though he understands, yet he will not respond.

⁸ As a bird that wanders from her nest, So is a man who wanders from his home.

¹⁷ Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a fattened calf with hatred.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, But one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

¹ A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.

²⁹ He who is slow to anger has great understanding, But he who has a quick temper displays folly.

⁴¹ He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

⁶ Yahweh said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life."

¹⁵ Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

¹⁰ The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

⁷ You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.