13 ‘Good-for-nothing men* have gone out from your midst+ that they may try to turn away the inhabitants of their city,+ saying: “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known,’

27 As for the good-for-nothing men,+ they said: “How will this one save us?”+ Accordingly they despised+ him, and they did not bring any gift to him.+ But he continued like one grown speechless.*+

25 Please, do not let my lord set his heart upon this good-for-nothing+ man Naʹbal, for, as his name is, so is he. Naʹbal* is his name, and senselessness* is with him.+ As for me your slave girl, I did not see my lord’s young men that you had sent.

22 However, every bad and good-for-nothing man+ out of the men that had gone with David answered and kept saying: “For the reason that they did not go with us,* we will give them none of the spoil that we delivered, except to each one his wife and his sons, and let them lead them and go.”