²³ Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

²¹ Saul answered, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then speak you to me after this manner?

¹⁴¹ I am small and despised. I don't forget your precepts.

²⁰ The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, But the rich person has many friends.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a ruler, And everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.

⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him: How much more do his friends avoid him! He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.

¹⁵ Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶ Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹ Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.