4And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
The text calls them “worthless and reckless.” Another way of saying that is, they were a bunch of unprincipled and brutal thugs.
4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.