25 Please do not let my lord [a]pay attention to this [b]worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. [c]Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him; but I your slave did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 25:25 Lit set his heart to
  2. 1 Samuel 25:25 Lit man of Belial
  3. 1 Samuel 25:25 I.e., fool

25 Please pay no attention, my lord, to that wicked man Nabal. He is just like his name—his name means Fool(A),(B) and folly goes with him. And as for me, your servant, I did not see the men my lord sent.

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