20 Joab your servant has done this to address the issue indirectly,[a] but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, knowing everything on earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. 14:20 Lit to go around the face of the matter

So give your servant a receptive heart to judge(A) your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours?” (B)

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11 So God said to him, “Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life[a] or riches for yourself,(A) or the death[b] of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to administer justice,(B) 12 I will therefore do what you have asked.(C) I will give you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has never been anyone like you before and never will be again.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 3:11 Lit for many days
  2. 3:11 Lit life

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