¹³ And Samuel cometh in unto Saul, and Saul saith to him, `Blessed `art' thou of Jehovah; I have performed the word of Jehovah.'

¹⁰ And he saith, `Blessed `art' thou of Jehovah, my daughter; thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning -- not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.

² and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and `of which' thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver `is' with me, I have taken it;' and his mother saith, `Blessed `is' my son of Jehovah.'

¹⁹ and he blesseth him, and saith, `Blessed `is' Abram to God Most High, possessing heaven and earth;

¹¹ the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

¹⁰ `So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say -- We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do -- we have done.'

³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!

¹³ A generation -- how high are their eyes, Yea, their eyelids are lifted up.

¹³ Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

² Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth, A stranger, and not thine own lips.

¹¹ `I have repented that I caused Saul to reign for king, for he hath turned back from after Me, and My words he hath not performed;' and it is displeasing to Samuel, and he crieth unto Jehovah all the night.

⁹ and Saul hath pity -- also the people -- on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that `is' good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted -- it they devoted.

¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at his completing to cause the burnt-offering to ascend, that lo, Samuel hath come, and Saul goeth out to meet him, to bless him;

¹² and the man saith, `The woman whom Thou didst place with me -- she hath given to me of the tree -- and I do eat.'