10. Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’
11. Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it.
12. Let the Lord judge between you and me, and let the Lord avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you.
13. As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you.
14. After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?
15. Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”