וַיֹּ֨אמֶר לַאֲנָשָׁ֜יו חָלִ֧ילָה לִּ֣י מֵֽיהוָ֗ה אִם־אֶעֱשֶׂה֩ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֨ר הַזֶּ֤ה לַֽאדֹנִי֙ לִמְשִׁ֣יחַ יְהוָ֔ה לִשְׁלֹ֥חַ יָדִ֖י בּ֑וֹ כִּֽי־מְשִׁ֥יחַ יְהוָ֖ה הֽוּא׃
Lalu ia berkata kepada orang-orangnya, “Kiranya Yang Mahakekal menjauhkan aku dari melakukan hal ini terhadap tuanku, orang yang diurapi Yang Mahakekal, yaitu mengangkat tanganku terhadap dia, sebab dialah orang yang diurapi Yang Mahakekal.”
Radak
But (no)! I have delivered him that without cause was my enemy: – Not merely have I not requited evil unto him (who was) at peace with me, but (on the contrary) I have delivered him who without cause was my enemy. But to no purpose did I rescue him as indeed he rescued Saul from the power of Abishai, who, had he not withheld him, was about to kill him, as he said: “Let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time” (i Sam. 26:8); and so of the occasion when he was in the cave it is said: “so David checked his men with these words and suffered them not to rise against Saul” (i Sam. 24:7). And the waw in ואחלצה (“but [lit. and] I have delivered”) is like the waw (in ועבדיך in the verse) “but (and) thy servants came to buy food” (Gen. 42:10), of which (passage) the interpretation is: “It is not, my lord, as thou sayest, that we are spies; but thy servants are come to buy food.”