7. Yet the king is only one man! If he tells them to kill, they kill. If he tells them to set someone free, they set someone free.
8. If he tells them to strike, they strike. If he tells them to destroy or build something, they destroy it or they build it.
9. If he tells them to cut down something, they cut it down. If he tells them to plant, they plant.
10. All his people and his military powers obey him. Furthermore, he reclines, eats, drinks, and sleeps;
11. but they keep watch around him, and no one can go away to take care of his own matters, nor do they disobey him.
12. Gentlemen, isn’t the king superior, since he is to be completely obeyed in this manner?" Then he stopped speaking.
13. Then the third young man, Zerubbabel, who had spoken of women and truth, began to speak:
14. “Gentlemen, isn’t the king great, aren’t men abundant, and isn’t wine strong? Who is it, though, that masters them or rules over them? Isn’t it women?
15. Women give birth to the king and to all the people who rule over the sea and land.
16. From women they all are born. It was women who brought up those men who plant the vineyards from which wine is produced.
17. “Women make men’s clothes. They bring men honor. Without women, men aren’t even able to exist.
18. If men gather gold and silver or any valuable thing, and then see a desirable and beautiful woman,
19. they forget everything to gaze at her. With mouths wide open, they stare at her. All choose her over gold, silver, or any other valuable thing.