²⁸ And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.

³⁶ And a man will be hated by those of his house.

¹⁹ A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.

¹¹ And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

⁸ And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

⁴ And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

¹⁰ But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.

²¹ And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.

¹⁸ For he saw that for envy they had given him up.

⁴ And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

¹¹ False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

¹³ Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.