39 And I today am weak although anointed+ as king, and these men, the sons of Ze·ruʹiah,+ are too severe for me.+ May Jehovah repay the doer of what is bad according to his own badness.”+

10 But the king said: “What do I have to do with YOU men,*+ YOU sons of Ze·ruʹiah?+ Thus let him call down evil,+ because Jehovah himself has said to him,+ ‘Call down evil upon David!’ So who* should say, ‘Why did you do that way?’”+