¹⁷ And she speaketh unto him according to these words, saying, `The Hebrew servant whom thou hast brought unto us, hath come in unto me to play with me;

¹ `Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

⁶⁵ Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, -- `He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking;

⁹ A false witness is not acquitted, And whoso breatheth out lies perisheth.

⁵ A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

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

² O Jehovah, deliver my soul from a lying lip, From a deceitful tongue!

³ What doth He give to thee? And what doth He add to thee? O deceitful tongue!

⁴ Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.

³ Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

¹⁴ A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

⁹ and she writeth in the letters, saying, `Proclaim a fast, and cause Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

¹⁰ and cause two men -- sons of worthlessness -- to sit over-against him, and they testify of him, saying, Thou hast blessed God and Melech; and they have brought him out, and stoned him, and he dieth.'

¹¹ And the men of his city, the elders and the freemen who are dwelling in his city, do as Jezebel hath sent unto them, as written in the letters that she sent unto them,

¹² they have proclaimed a fast, and caused Naboth to sit at the head of the people,

¹³ and two men -- sons of worthlessness -- come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

¹⁷ and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he -- the troubler of Israel?'

¹⁶ `Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

¹⁴ that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, `See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice,