¹⁷ Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for ^(A)as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in ^(B)discerning good and evil. And may the Lord your God be with you.’ ”

²⁰ To bring about this change of affairs your servant Joab has done this thing; but my lord is wise, ^(A)according to the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that is in the earth.”

²⁷ And ^(A)he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, ^(B)but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.