Elijah's Trash Talking

Elijah said to the prophets of baal, choose one of the buwls and prepare it first. Since there are so many of you, call in the name of your god, but do not let light the fire. So they took the bowl given them and prepared it. Then they called in thename of bal from morning till noon, bal answer us. They shouted, but there was no response. No one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made. At noon, elijah began to taunt them. Shout louder. Some would argue, perhaps he's busy or or the one was sleeping. But the frence to busy there refers either to when i was