18:13 If I had acted at risk of my own life 1 – and nothing is hidden from the king! – you would have abandoned me.” 2
1 tc The translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew mss, and a number of the ancient versions in reading בְנַפְשִׁי (vÿnafshi, “against my life”) rather than the MT בְנַפְשׁוֹ (vÿnafsho, “against his life”).