Luxury is not fitting for a fool, Much less for a servant to rule over princes.

A poor man who oppresses the poor [Is like] a driving rain which leaves no food.

I have seen servants on horses, While princes walk on the ground like servants.

"I will give children [to be] their princes, And babes shall rule over them.

The people will be oppressed, Every one by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder, And the base toward the honorable."

The name of the man [was] Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And [she was] a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man [was] harsh and evil in [his] doings. And he [was of the house of] Caleb.

Then Nabal answered David's servants, and said, "Who [is] David, and who [is] the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master.

"Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] to men when I do not know where they [are] from?"

"Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name [is,] so [is] he: Nabal [is] his name, and folly [is] with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

Then it came about, [after] about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died.

And when he had brought him down, there they were, spread out over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.