Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.
But I say this, brothers: the time is short. From now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.