Therefore y’all judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each person will receive praise from God.
“His master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age are more shrewd than the children of the light in dealing with their own people.
Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master and against all his house, for he is such a worthless fellow that one can’t speak to him.”
Then the princes of the Philistines went out. Every time they went out, David was more prudent than all the servants of Saul, and his name became highly esteemed.
Then one of the young men answered and said, “I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, prudent in speech, and a handsome person, and YHWH is with him.”
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of YHWH your God, which he commanded you; for now YHWH would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
YHWH has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
“Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said-said that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now YHWH says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.