²⁶ Now then, my lord, ^(A)as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, because ^(B)the Lord has restrained you from bloodguilt and from ^(C)saving with your own hand, now then ^(D)let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.

³³ Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, ^(A)who have kept me this day from bloodguilt ^(B)and from working salvation with my own hand! ³⁴ For as surely ^(C)as the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, ^(D)who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”