Barzillai said to the king, “How many days are left in my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my service I will wait, until my relief comes.
But this I say, brothers, the time is short. It remains that those who have wives should be as though they had none;
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.