2 Samuel 19:36

New American Bible - revised edition

I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks, or still hear the voices of men and women singers? Why should your servant be any further burden to my lord the king?

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:35

But Barzillai answered the king: “How much longer have I to live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

2 Samuel 19:37

In escorting the king across the Jordan, your servant is doing little enough! Why should the king give me this reward?

Psalm 90:10

Seventy is the sum of our years, or eighty, if we are strong; Most of them are toil and sorrow; they pass quickly, and we are gone.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come And the years approach of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Luke 6:38

Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”