4. If he bid them make war the one against the other, they do it: and if he send them out against the enemies, they go, and overcome mountains, walls, and towers.
5. They kill and are slain, and transgress not the king’s commandment: if they get the victory, they bring all to the king, as well the spoil, as all things else.
6. Likewise for those that are no soldiers, and have not to do with wars, but use husbandry, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring it to the king, and compel one another to pay tribute to the king.
7. And he is but one man: if he command to kill, they kill; if he command to spare, they spare;
8. if he command to strike, they strike; if he command to make desolate, they make desolate; if he command to build, they build;
9. if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.
10. So all his people and his armies obey him: furthermore he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest:
11. and these keep watch round about him, neither may any one depart, and do his own business, neither disobey they him in anything.
12. O sirs, how should not the king be strongest, seeing that in such sort he is obeyed? And he held his peace.
13. Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak.
14. O sirs, is not the king great, and men are many, and wine is strong? who is it then that rules them, or has the lordship over them? are they not women?
15. Women have borne the king and all the people that bear rule by sea and land.
16. Even of them came they: and they nourished them up that planted the vineyards, from whence the wine comes.
17. These also make garments for men; these bring glory to men; and without women can’t men be.
18. Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other goodly thing, and see a woman which is comely in favor and beauty,
19. they let all those things go, and gape after her, and even with open mouth fix their eyes fast on her; and have all more desire to her than to gold or silver, or any goodly thing whatever.
20. A man leaves his own father that brought him up, and his own country, and cleaves to his wife.
21. And with his wife he ends his days, and remembers neither father, nor mother, nor country.
22. By this also you⌃ must know that women have dominion over you: do you⌃ not labor and toil, and give and bring all to women?
23. Yes, a man takes his sword, and goes forth to make outroads, and to rob and to steal, and to sail upon the sea and upon rivers;