2 Samuel 9:8

And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?

Ver. 8. Upon such a dead dog as I am?] So he calleth himself, as being lame, poor, of a rejected stock, and no way to be compared to David and his children, whose companion and fellow commoner he was now to be made. There is no more certain way to honour and advancement, than a lowly dejection of ourselves.