It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
"You are more righteous than I"  (1 Samuel 24:17).  These are the very words that Judah spoke to his daughter-in-law Tamar, whom he was in the act of burning to death for adultery  (Genesis 38:26).  What could either Judah or Saul have meant by words like these?  What `righteousness' could either one of them have claimed that was worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as that of the persons addressed?  "Saul should have said, `Thou art righteous; but I am wicked.'"[14]