Today I am eighty years old. Are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? Or is food and drink able to delight your servant? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
2 Samuel 19:36 - Catholic Public Domain Version I, your servant, shall procede a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your servant will only go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? American Standard Version (1901) Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? Common English Bible Your servant will cross a short way over the Jordan with the king, but why should the king give me such a reward? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee. I need not this recompense. English Standard Version 2016 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? |
Today I am eighty years old. Are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? Or is food and drink able to delight your servant? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
But I beg you that I, your servant, may be returned and may die in my own city, and may be buried beside the sepulcher of my father and my mother. But there is your servant Chimham; let him go with you, my lord the king. And do for him whatever seems good to you."
Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle.
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the time of affliction arrives and the years draw near, about which you will say, "These do not please me."
Give, and it will be given to you: a good measure, pressed down and shaken together and overflowing, they will place upon your lap. Certainly, the same measure that you use to measure out, will be used to measure back to you again."