10. she sent her maid who was in charge of all her things to summon Uzziah, Chabris, and Charmis, the elders of her city.
11. When they came, she said to them: “Listen to me, you rulers of the people of Bethulia. What you said to the people today is not right. You pronounced this oath, made between God and yourselves, and promised to hand over the city to our enemies unless within a certain time the Lord comes to our aid.
12. Who are you to put God to the test today, setting yourselves in the place of God in human affairs?
13. And now it is the Lord Almighty you are putting to the test, but you will never understand anything!
14. You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart or grasp the workings of the human mind; how then can you fathom God, who has made all these things, or discern his mind, or understand his plan?“No, my brothers, do not anger the Lord our God.