Then said Achish to his servants, “Lo, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me?
I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Surely oppression makes the wise man foolish, and a bribe corrupts the mind.
So he changed his behavior before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle run down his beard.
Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?”