Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what [if] thy father answer thee roughly?
Ver. 10. Who shall tell me?] Since thou canst neither come, nor send to me with any safety.
If thy father answer thee roughly.] As indeed he did, Et tristoribus dictis atrocia facta coniungebat, as Tacitus saith of Tiberius; he spake stones, and threw daggers. 1 Samuel 20:30 ; 1Sa 20:33