29. ‘Now what have I done?’ said David. ‘Can’t I even speak?’
30. He then turned away to someone else and brought up the same matter, and the men answered him as before.
31. What David said was overheard and reported to Saul, and Saul sent for him.
32. David said to Saul, ‘Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him.’
33. Saul replied, ‘You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a young man, and he has been a warrior from his youth.’
34. But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock,