Let not my lord regard this man; his person and words deserve thy contempt, but not thy regard. Man of Belial; for such he hath showed himself to be by this wicked and abominable carriage towards thee. Folly is with him; his noted folly and stupidity is a more proper object for thy pity than anger. His sordid answer to thy servants did not proceed from any ill design, or deep malice, but from brutish sottishhess, and want of the understanding of a man in him. It may be thought a great crime, that she traduceth her husband in this manner; but this may be said for her, that she told them nothing but what they all knew concerning him, and that she only seemed to take away that which he never had indeed, to wit, his good name, that she might preserve that which he had, and which was more dear and important to him, even his life and soul. Thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord; though I freely submit myself to the punishment in my husband's stead, yet I was innocent of the crime.
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1 Samuel 25:25
25 Let not my lord, I pray thee, regardi this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.