Holy Scripture
1 Samuel 21:15
A church father on this verse
“Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose u…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15And Achish said to his servants, Lo! ye see the man is mad: why have ye brought him in to me?
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In context
13And David laid up the words in his heart, and was greatly afraid of Achish king of Gath.
14And he changed his appearance before him, and feigned himself a false character in that day; and drummed upon the doors of the city, and used extravagant gestures with his hands, and fell against the doors of the gate, and his spittle ran down upon his beard.
— 1 Samuel 21:15 —
16Am I in want of madmen, that ye have brought him in to me to play the madman? he shall not come into the house.