⁵ When they reached the district of Zuph,^(A) Saul said to the servant who was with him, “Come, let’s go back, or my father will stop thinking about the donkeys and start worrying^(B) about us.”

⁶ But the servant replied, “Look, in this town there is a man of God;^(C) he is highly respected, and everything^(D) he says comes true. Let’s go there now. Perhaps he will tell us what way to take.”

⁷ Saul said to his servant, “If we go, what can we give the man? The food in our sacks is gone. We have no gift^(E) to take to the man of God. What do we have?”