David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
and what [is] my life? keeping sheep, for from thence was he taken and advanced; though some think his meaning is, that to hazard his life, as Saul proposed, was not equivalent to such an honour he meant to confer upon him, and that he was ready to do it at all times: