2 Samuel 19:36 - Revised Standard Version Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your servant will only go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? American Standard Version (1901) Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? Common English Bible Your servant will cross a short way over the Jordan with the king, but why should the king give me such a reward? Catholic Public Domain Version I, your servant, shall procede a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee. I need not this recompense. |
I am this day eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Pray let your servant return, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you.”
The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”