2 Samuel 14:19-20 Then said the king, Is, the hand of Joab, with thee, in all this? And the woman answered and said––By the life of thy soul, my lord, O king, there is no way to the right or to the left, of anything that my lord the king hath spoken, for, thy servant Joab himself, charged me, and, himself, put, in the mouth of thy maidservant, all these words:

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁹ Then said the king, Is, the hand of Joab, with thee, in all this? And the woman answered and said––By the life of thy soul, my lord, O king, there is no way to the right or to the left, of anything that my lord the king hath spoken, for, thy servant Joab himself, charged me, and, himself, put, in the mouth of thy maidservant, all these words: ²⁰ for the purpose of turning round the face of the matter, hath thy servant Joab done this thing,––my lord being wise, as with the wisdom of a messenger of God, in knowing all that is [done] in the land.