But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
And the king said to Barzillai, “You pass over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me.”
“If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my labor I will wait Until my change comes.
But this I say, brothers, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.