²⁷ And she cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill, and layeth hold on his feet, and Gehazi cometh nigh to thrust her away, and the man of God saith, `Let her alone, for her soul `is' bitter to her, and Jehovah hath hidden `it' from me, and hath not declared `it' to me.'

¹⁷ and Jehovah said, `Am I concealing from Abraham that which I am doing,

⁴ Therefore saith one of his disciples -- Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up --

⁵ `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

⁶ and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

⁷ Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

²⁷ And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, `What seekest thou?' or `Why speakest thou with her?'

³⁸ and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

⁶ And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;

¹³ And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,

⁹ and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.

³¹ And the multitude charged them that they might be silent, and they cried out the more, saying, `Deal kindly with us sir -- Son of David.'

²³ And he did not answer her a word; and his disciples having come to him, were asking him, saying -- `Let her away, because she crieth after us;'

⁷ For the Lord Jehovah doth nothing, Except He hath revealed His counsel unto His servants the prophets.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man sustaineth his sickness, And a smitten spirit who doth bear?

¹⁰ The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹² And one of his servants saith, `Nay, my lord, O king, for Elisha the prophet, who `is' in Israel, declareth to the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in the inner part of thy bed-chamber.'

²⁵ And she goeth, and cometh in unto the man of God, unto the hill of Carmel, and it cometh to pass, at the man of God's seeing her from over-against, that he saith unto Gehazi his young man, `Lo, this Shunammite;

³ And Nathan saith unto the king, `All that `is' in thine heart -- go, do, for Jehovah `is' with thee.'

¹⁰ And she is bitter in soul, and prayeth unto Jehovah, and weepeth greatly,

¹⁵ no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.