Verse 20

²⁰This jar is not enough for me to live in with comfort, king. Give me a wide place, since I have come to you for refuge. ²¹Then she was taken by the king and thrown into a lake, king; and this great fish covered it with his own body and went on growing. ²²This water is no keeping of me safe, king, for one whose home is water. Put me, by way of guarding me, in a pool that does not dry up. ²³Told this, he carried the fish to one water after another that did not run dry; and then he threw that fish, past all measuring, into the sea. ²⁴As he was being thrown in, he said to him: Here the crocodiles and the rest will eat me, and they are very strong. Hero, you should not let me go here.