¹⁷ Now think it over and see what you can do, because disaster is hanging over our master and his whole household. He is such a wicked^(A) man that no one can talk to him.”

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.