Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Sacrifice; perfect and inviolable. (Tirinus)
Cursing, provided he be in the right. (Menochius)
Hebrew, "the king to discern (hear) good and bad "of consummate wisdom; (ver. 20.; Haydock) so that no one can impose upon him.