that his name would not be his fate.34 R. Christopher Heard has published a quite different understanding of 1 Chr 4:9–10*.35 He takes the suffix on עצבי (“cause me pain”) as subjective and revocalizes מרעה as the word for “pastureland.” The last half of v. 10* would then read: “Let your hand be with me, and make pastureland (available) without my causing grief (or: without my having to struggle for the additional land).” He also proposes that the brothers whom Jabez outranks in honor are