2 Samuel 19:35 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁵ “I am now eighty years old. Do I discern between the good and evil? Does your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Do I still hear the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my master the sovereign?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ I am this day eighty years old. Could I now [be useful as a counselor to] discern between good and evil? Can your servant appreciate what I eat or drink? Can I any longer enjoy the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be still a burden to my lord the king?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Common English Bible

³⁵ I am now 80 years old. Do I know what is good or bad anymore? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I even hear the voices of men or women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my master and king?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ Today I am eighty years old. Are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? Or is food and drink able to delight your servant? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:35 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:25

But the sovereign said to Aḇ

2 Samuel 15:33

And Dawiḏ

2 Samuel 19:36

“Your servant would only pass over the Yardĕ

Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants – these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. They also had two hundred men and women singers.

Nehemiah 7:67

besides their male and female servants, these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers.

Job 12:11

Does the ear not try words? And the mouth taste food for itself?

Job 6:30

Is there unrighteousness on my tongue? Does my taste not discern what is perverse?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy years; Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet the best of them is but toil and exertion; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Exodus 12:4

‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings, according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” And the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of sovereigns and of the provinces. I provided male and female singers for myself, and the pleasures of men – a woman and women.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed you have tasted that the Master is good.