And he altered his mouth before them, and he slipped down between their hands. And he stumbled against the doors of the gate. And his spit flowed down his beard.
Whoever fears man will quickly fall. Whoever hopes in the Lord shall be lifted up.
For, like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of the foolish. But this, too, is emptiness.
It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
If leprosy will have sprung up in the head or the beard of a man or woman, the priest shall look upon them,
And Saul and all the Israelites, hearing these words of the Philistine in this manner, were stupefied and exceedingly afraid.
And Achish said to his servants: "You saw that the man is insane. Why did you bring him to me?