15. After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea.
16. Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.
17. And when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, Saul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
18. And he said to David: Thou art more just than I: for thou hast done good to me, and I have rewarded thee with evil.
19. And thou hast shewn this day what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.
20. For who when he hath found his enemy, will let him go well away? But the Lord reward thee for this good turn, for what thou hast done to me this day.
21. And now as I know that thou shalt surely be king, and have the kingdom of Israel in thy hand:
22. Swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, nor take away my name from the house of my father.
23. And David swore to Saul. So Saul went home: and David and his men went up into safer places.