1 Samuel 17:30-34

Contemporary English Version

³⁰ Then he turned and asked another soldier the same thing he had asked the others, and he got the same answer.

³¹ Some soldiers overheard David talking, so they told Saul what David had said. Saul sent for David, and David came. ³² “Your Majesty,” he said, “this Philistine shouldn't turn us into cowards. I'll go out and fight him myself!”

³³ “You don't have a chance against him,” Saul replied. “You're only a boy, and he's been a soldier all his life.”

³⁴ But David told him:

Your Majesty, I take care of my father's sheep. And when one of them is dragged off by a lion or a bear,