³³ and setteth before him to eat; but he saith, `I do not eat till I have spoken my word;' and he saith, `Speak.'

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

³ `If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,

⁴ If I give sleep to mine eyes, To mine eyelids -- slumber,

⁵ Till I do find a place for Jehovah, Tabernacles for the Mighty One of Jacob.

²⁹ Hast thou seen a man speedy in his business? Before kings he doth station himself, He stations not himself before obscure men!

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

¹⁴ but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

³¹ And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;'

³² and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

³³ The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

⁵ The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

⁶ not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

⁷ with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

⁸ having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

² and those having believing masters, let them not slight `them', because they are brethren, but rather let them serve, because they are stedfast and beloved, who of the benefit are partaking. These things be teaching and exhorting;