The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.

They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every important case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you.

Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me?”

Better to be dishonored, yet have a servant,
than to act important but have no food.

A fool will no longer be called a noble,
nor a scoundrel said to be important.