Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageGod do the same and worse to David's enemies — I swear by morning I will not leave a single living male of all who belong to Nabal!
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GSo may Elohim do to the enemies of Dawid, and so may He add to it — if by morning I leave of all that belongs to him so much as one who urinates against a wall!
KJV
King James VersionSo and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleMay God punish David, and ever so severely, if I let one male belonging to Nabal survive until morning.”
Footnotes
The phrase *mashtin ba-qir* (מַשְׁתִּין בְּקִיר) — one who urinates against a wall — is a blunt Hebrew idiom for any male, a crude and emphatic way of saying not one man will survive. The MT reads the enemies of David, which is widely recognised as a *tiqqun soferim* — a scribal piety-correction. The original text almost certainly read to David himself, i.e., a self-imprecatory oath formula (God do so to me if I fail to act). The scribes softened it to protect David's dignity. FOG follows the MT while preserving the raw idiom; FOG Message renders the force of the oath dynamically.