29:6 So Achish summoned David and said to him, “As surely as the Lord lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you 1 serving 2 with me in the army. 3 I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion 4 of the leaders, you are not reliable. 5
29:8 But David said to Achish, “What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”
1 tn Heb “it is good in my eyes.” Cf. v. 7.
2 tn Heb “your going forth and your coming in.” The expression is a merism.
3 tn Heb “camp.”
4 tn Heb “eyes.”
5 tn Heb “good.”