²⁸ When Eliab, David’s oldest brother, heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger^(A) at him and asked, “Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle.”

¹¹ His brothers were jealous of him,^(A) but his father kept the matter in mind.^(B)

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”^(A) And they hated him all the more^(B) because of his dream and what he had said.

⁴ When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him^(A) and could not speak a kind word to him.

¹⁰ Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.^(A)

²¹ When his family^[a] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”^(A)

¹⁸ For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.

⁴ And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.^(A)