New Revised Standard Version
Then David said to Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?”

Contemporary English Version
"How will you do that?" David asked.

New American Bible
David then asked Jonathan, “Who will tell me if your father gives you a harsh answer?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy father should answer thee harshly concerning me?

And David answered Jonathan: Who shall bring me word, if thy father should answer thee harshly concerning me?

answer thee

1 Samuel 20:30-34 Then Saul being angry against Jonathan, said to him: Thou son of a woman that is the ravisher of a man, do I not know that thou lovest the son of Isai to thy own confusion, and to the confusion of thy shameless mother? . . .

1 Samuel 25:10,14,17 But Nabal answering the servants of David, said: Who is David? and what is the son of Isai? servants are multiplied now days who flee from their masters. . . .

Genesis 42:7,30 And he knew them, he spoke as it were to strangers, somewhat roughly, asking them: Whence came you? They answered: From the land of Chanaan, to buy necessaries of life. . . .

1 Kings 12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, leaving the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,

Proverbs 18:23 The poor will speak with supplications, and the rich will speak roughly.