"Now ye shall answer me my question first! When I have your answer, I will give you mine swiftly enough, in deeds not words! What is the outcome of all your talk?
Below there is the loot, and, as I said, here stand I between it and you! Now decide, what will ye!" He turned his back, and that was bravery again; for under his eye the men were used to showing him respect, whereas behind his back they had grown used to maligning him.

Yet he had thrown their shame in their very teeth because he knew their hearts were men's hearts.
Turning his back on jackals would have stung them to worse dishonor.
He would not have turned his back on jackals, he would have driven them before him.
It began to occur to the men that they once made me go-between, and that it was my business to speak up for them now.

Many of them looked toward me.

They began to urge me.

Yet I feared to speak up lest I say the wrong thing.