8. And he saith to him, `I [am]; go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah.'
9. And he saith, `What have I sinned, that thou art giving thy servant into the hand of Ahab--to put me to death?
10. Jehovah thy God liveth, if there is a nation and kingdom whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee; and they said, He is not, then he caused the kingdom and the nation to swear, that it doth not find thee;
11. and now, thou art saying, Go, say to thy lord, Lo, Elijah;
12. and it hath been, I go from thee, and the Spirit of Jehovah doth lift thee up, whither I know not, and I have come to declare to Ahab, and he doth not find thee, and he hath slain me; and thy servant is fearing Jehovah from my youth.
13. `Hath it not been declared to my lord that which I have done in Jezebel's slaying the prophets of Jehovah, that I hide of the prophets of Jehovah a hundred men, fifty by fifty in a cave, and sustained them with bread and water?
14. and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah--and he hath slain me!'
15. And Elijah saith, `Jehovah of Hosts liveth, before whom I have stood, surely to-day I appear unto him.'