39. Then David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire, but he tried in vain to walk around, for he was not trained to use them. So David said to Saul, “I am not able to walk with these, because I am not trained to use them.” So David removed them.
40. Then he took his staff in his hand, picked out for himself five smooth stones from the wadi, and he put them in his shepherd’s bag, in the pouch. And with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.
41. Then the Philistine came on, getting nearer and nearer to David, with his shield bearer in front of him.
42. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was only a boy and ruddy with a handsome appearance.
43. So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming to me with sticks?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
44. The Philistine said to David, “Come to me so that I can give your flesh to the birds of heaven and to the wild animals of the field!”