and changeth his behaviour before their eyes, and feigneth himself mad in their hand, and scribbleth on the doors of the gate, and letteth down his spittle unto his beard.
Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.
Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.
I — I [am] He — your comforter, Who [art] thou — and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man — grass he is made!
‘And when a man (or a woman) hath in him a plague in the head or in the beard,
And Saul heareth — and all Israel — these words of the Philistine, and they are broken down and greatly afraid.
And Achish saith unto his servants, ‘Lo, ye see a man acting as a madman; why do ye bring him in unto me?