²¹ When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

⁶ I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.

²² Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

⁴ And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.

⁵ And he had a head-dress of brass on his head, and he was dressed in a coat of metal, the weight of which was five thousand shekels of brass.

⁶ His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

⁷ The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.

⁸ He took up his position and in a loud voice said to the armies of Israel, Why have you come out to make war? Am I not a Philistine and you servants of Saul? Send out a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.

⁹ If he is able to have a fight with me and overcome me, then we will be your servants: but if I am able to overcome him, then you will be our servants and do work for us.

¹⁰ And the Philistine said, I have put to shame the armies of Israel this day; give me a man so that we may have a fight together.

⁴² And when the Philistine, taking note, saw David, he had a poor opinion of him: for he was only a boy, red-haired and good-looking.

⁵ Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

³¹ The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

²³ This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth: