וַיֹּ֣אמֶר יְהוּדָ֗ה מַה־נֹּאמַר֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י מַה־נְּדַבֵּ֖ר וּמַה־נִּצְטַדָּ֑ק הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים מָצָא֙ אֶת־עֲוֺ֣ן עֲבָדֶ֔יךָ הִנֶּנּ֤וּ עֲבָדִים֙ לַֽאדֹנִ֔י גַּם־אֲנַ֕חְנוּ גַּ֛ם אֲשֶׁר־נִמְצָ֥א הַגָּבִ֖יעַ בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
유다가 가로되 우리가 내 주께 무슨 말을 하오리이까 무슨 설명을 하오리이까 어떻게 우리의 정직을 나타내리이까 하나님이 종들의 죄악을 적발하셨으니 우리와 이 잔이 발견된 자가 다 내 주의 종이 되겠나이다
Havot Yair
And someone who was friendly with the thief for his own benefit made efforts and vouched for him. But one of the learned townspeople took cause with him and said that it is forbidden to save him from the death penalty due to the blood of his fellow Jew whom he killed. Just the opposite, if one of the relatives of the one killed were there, he could have turned him in to the government, as per the law of the blood redeemer. So how could he make efforts to save him? And even though, since this was from the Lord [alluding to Psalms 118:23], and the one making efforts was not successful, the smelter smelted to no purpose [alluding to Jeremiah 6:29], and he was hung, it nevertheless came to my mind that, had this been a question raised to a sage, what would we say and what would we speak [alluding to Genesis 44:16] about it?