²⁴ and saith, `Thou art he -- my son Esau?' and he saith, `I `am'.'

² And David saith to Ahimelech the priest, `The king hath commanded me a matter, and he saith unto me, Let no man know anything of the matter about which I am sending thee, and which I have commanded thee; and the young men I have caused to know at such and such a place;

²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

⁷ for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

⁸ and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say -- `We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous.

¹⁶ These `are' the things that ye do: Speak ye truth each with his neighbour, Truth and peaceful judgment judge in your gates,

⁸ Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

²² An abomination to Jehovah `are' lying lips, And stedfast doers `are' his delight.

¹⁹ The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment -- a tongue of falsehood.

⁵ For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.

⁷ For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

⁸ His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

⁵ And the king saith to her, `What -- to thee?' and she saith, `Truly a widow woman `am' I, and my husband dieth,

¹⁰ And Achish saith, `Whither have ye pushed to-day?' and David saith, `Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelite, and unto the south of the Kenite.'

¹³ and changeth his behaviour before their eyes, and feigneth himself mad in their hand, and scribbleth on the doors of the gate, and letteth down his spittle unto his beard.

⁹ Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,