2 Samuel 16:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ But the king said, ‘What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? If he is cursing because the Lord has said to him, “Curse David”, who then shall say, “Why have you done so?”’ ¹¹ David said to Abishai and to all his servants, ‘My own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord has bidden him. ¹² It may be that the Lord will look on my distress,^[a] and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.’