1 Samuel 17:42

Louis Segond

Le Philistin regarda, et lorsqu'il aperçut David, il le méprisa, ne voyant en lui qu'un enfant, blond et d'une belle figure.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Alors le Philistin regarda, et vit David, et le méprisa; car c'était un jeune homme, blond et beau de visage.

Darby's French Translation
Et le Philistin regarda et vit David, et le méprisa; car c'était un jeune homme au teint rosé, et beau de visage.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et le Philistin regarda, et vit David, et le méprisa; car ce n'était qu'un jeune garçon, blond, et beau de visage.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

disdained: 1 Kings 20:18, 2 Kings 18:23, 2 Kings 18:24, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, 2 Corinthians 11:27-29

a youth: 1 Samuel 17:33, 1 Samuel 16:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:6 - a goodly person Numbers 13:33 - and we were 1 Samuel 17:31 - sent for him Job 39:21 - and Jeremiah 9:23 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him,.... He looked about for his antagonist, to take a view of him, what sort of a man he was, expecting to see one much like himself; but observing a puny young man, he despised him in his heart, and perhaps looked upon it as an affront to him to send such a man to fight with him:

for he was [but] a youth; his age was one reason why he despised him, being, as before observed, about twenty years of age, and not come to his full strength, a stripling, as he is called, 1 Samuel 17:56, another reason follows,

and ruddy, and of a fair countenance; looked effeminate, had not the appearance of a soldier, of a weather beaten veteran, exposed to heat and cold, and inured to hardships.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. He disdained him — He held him in contempt; he saw that he was young, and from his ruddy complexion supposed him to be effeminate.