31 大卫作牧人的经历训练他信靠主,所以当听见歌利亚的骂阵,他能对扫罗说,“你仆人为父亲放羊,有时来了狮子或熊,从群中衔一只羊羔去。我就追赶它,击打它,将羊羔从它口中救出来。它起来要害我,我就揪着它的胡子,将它打死。…耶和华救我脱离狮子和熊的爪,也必救我脱离这非利士人的手”—34~37节。
31 David's experience as a shepherd had trained him to trust in the Lord, so when he heard Goliath's defiance, he could say to Saul, "Your servant has been tending his father's sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock, I would go out after it and strike it and deliver the lamb from its mouth. And when it rose up against me, I would seize it by its beard and strike it and kill it…Jehovah, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine"—vv. 34-37.