Pleasant sayings [are] a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Please now, the words of the prophet are {unanimously} favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably."

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "If you turn back, then I will take you back. You will stand {before me}. And if you utter [what is] precious and not [what is] worthless, you will be as my mouth. They will turn back to you, and you will not turn back to them.

Turn away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances [are] good.

So then, the law [is] holy, and the commandment [is] holy and righteous and good.

Therefore, [did that which is] good become death to me? May it never be! Rather [it was] sin, in order that it might be recognized [as] sin, producing death through [what is] good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment.

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

But we know that the law [is] good, if anyone makes use of it lawfully,

And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor.

And the plan was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.

"And you answered me, and you said, 'The thing you have said to do is good.'

The plan was good {in my opinion}, and [so] I took from [among] you twelve men, {one from each tribe}.