But Barzillai said to the king, “How long do I still have to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
So the king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide you food in Jerusalem with me.”
“If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my struggle I will wait Until my relief 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. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away.