1 Samuel 17:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³² David said to Saul, ‘Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.’ ³³ Saul said to David, ‘You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.’ ³⁴ But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and whenever a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb from the flock,