¹⁰ Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

⁹ The LORD hath heard my supplication; The LORD will receive my prayer.

²¹ And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.