ג (Gimel) Be kind to your servant! Then I will live ¹  and keep ²  your instructions. ³ 

May your loyal love console me, as you promised your servant. ¹ 

Do not sit in judgment on ¹  your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you. ² 

The one who troubles ¹  his family ²  will inherit nothing, ³  and the fool ⁴  will be a servant to the wise person. ⁵ 

The king shows favor ¹  to a wise ²  servant, but his wrath falls ³  on one who acts shamefully.

I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’” ¹ 

“Israel is not a slave, is he? He was not born into slavery, was he? ¹  If not, why then is he being carried off?

It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

So now take ¹  seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede ²  for you, and I will respect him, ³  so that I do not deal with you ⁴  according to your folly, ⁵  because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.” ⁶ 

for you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build a dynasty ¹  for him. That is why your servant has had the courage to pray to you. ² 

But respond favorably to ¹  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ²  the desperate prayer ³  your servant is presenting to you. ⁴ 

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

Turn toward me and have mercy on me! Give your servant your strength! Deliver your slave! ¹ 

But you will be able to counter the advice of Ahithophel if you go back to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king! Previously I was your father’s servant, and now I will be your servant.’

Then Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. ¹  Please do not get angry with your servant, ²  for you are just like Pharaoh. ³ 

for you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have told ¹  your servant, ‘I will build you a dynastic house.’ ²  That is why your servant has had the courage ³  to pray this prayer to you.

Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth was a regular guest ¹  at David’s table, ²  just as though he were one of the king’s sons.

But respond favorably to ¹  your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer ²  the desperate prayer ³  your servant is presenting to you ⁴  today.

(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.) ¹