SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:43
Y dijo el filisteo a David: ¿Soy yo perro para que vengas a mí con palos? Y maldijo a David por sus dioses.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Samuel 17:43
Verse 43. Amos i a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?] It is very likely that Goliath did not perceive the sling, which David might have kept coiled up within his hand. Cursed David by his gods.] Prayed his gods to curse him. This long parley between David and Goliath is quite in the style of those times. A Hindoo sometimes in a fit of anger says to his enemy, The goddess Kalee shall devour thee! May Doorga destroy thee! Homer's heroes have generally an altercation before they engage; and sometimes enter into geographical and genealogical discussions, and vaunt and scold most contemptibly.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 43. And the Philistine said unto David, [am] I a dog ? etc.] Truly David did not think him much better, because of his impudence, impurity, and barking blasphemy against God, and the armies of Israel; the Targum is, “am I a despised dog?” verily he was by David: that thou comest to me with staves ? or with a staff, the plural for the singular, to beat him with it as a dog is beaten, and as David used to beat his dog with, while keeping his father’s sheep, when the dog he had with him did not do his business as he should; he says nothing of his sling and stones, they being out of sight: and the Philistine cursed David by his gods : by Dagon and others; he made an imprecation by them, and wished the greatest evils might befall him from them; he devoted him to them, and doubted not to make a sacrifice of him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 40-47 - The security and presumption of fools destroy them. Nothing can exce the humility, faith, and piety which appear in David's words. He expressed his assured expectation of success; he gloried in his mea appearance and arms, that the victory might be ascribed to the Lor alone.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 הפלשׁתי 6430 אל 413 דוד 1732 הכלב 3611 אנכי 595 כי 3588 אתה 859 בא 935 אלי 413 במקלות 4731 ויקלל 7043 הפלשׁתי 6430 את 853 דוד 1732 באלהיו׃ 430
