Translations
The king said, 'Is Joab behind all of this?' The woman answered, 'I swear by your life, my lord the king — no one can swerve to the right or left from anything my lord the king says. Yes, it was your servant Joab who instructed me and put all these words in my mouth.'
The king said, 'Is the hand of Yo'av with you in all this?' The woman answered and said, 'As your nephesh lives, my lord the king — one cannot turn to the right or to the left from any word my lord the king has spoken. For it was your servant Yo'av who commanded me, and it was he who put all these words into your servant's mouth.'
And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
