29. “Now what have I done?” David asked. “Can't I even ask a question?”
30. He turned to another man and asked him the same question, and every time he asked, he got the same answer.
31. Some men heard what David had said, and they told Saul, who sent for him.
32. David said to Saul, “Your Majesty, no one should be afraid of this Philistine! I will go and fight him.”
33. “No,” answered Saul. “How could you fight him? You're just a boy, and he has been a soldier all his life!”
34. “Your Majesty,” David said, “I take care of my father's sheep. Whenever a lion or a bear carries off a lamb,
35. I go after it, attack it, and rescue the lamb. And if the lion or bear turns on me, I grab it by the throat and beat it to death.
36. I have killed lions and bears, and I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, who has defied the army of the living God.