¹⁶ Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

¹² Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.

¹³ Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

²⁷ But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

²⁵ Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.

² "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.

¹ "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.

³⁴ You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

³⁵ The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure{TR adds "of the heart"} brings out evil things.