¹⁹ Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

² Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

⁵ Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Hosts!"

¹¹ Then I said, "Lord, how long?" He answered, "Until cities are waste without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the land becomes utterly waste,