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.