2 Samuel 19:35 - Modern English Version

³⁵ I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant from what is harmful? Can your servant taste what I eat and what I drink? Can I still hear the voices of men and women who sing? Why, then, should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁵ I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁵ I am this day eighty years old. Could I now [be useful as a counselor to] discern between good and evil? Can your servant appreciate what I eat or drink? Can I any longer enjoy the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be still a burden to my lord the king?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁵ I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Common English Bible

³⁵ I am now 80 years old. Do I know what is good or bad anymore? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I even hear the voices of men or women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my master and king?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁵ 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 19:35 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 13:25

The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, we must not all go or we will be a burden to you.” When he urged him, he refused to go, but gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 15:33

David said to him, “If you pass on with me, you will be a burden to me.

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant is merely crossing over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with this reward?

Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants (these numbered seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven); they also had two hundred singing men and women.

Nehemiah 7:67

besides their male and female servants, which numbered seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five male and female singers.

Job 12:11

Does not the ear test words and the mouth taste its food?

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern pernicious things?

Psalm 90:10

The years of our life are seventy, or even, by reason of strength, eighty; yet their span is but toil and sorrow; they soon pass away, and we fly away.

Exodus 12:4

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to what each man shall eat, divide the lamb.

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the young girl went and called the child’s mother.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and precious possessions of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and the sensual delights of any human being, even a harem of many concubines.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food belongs to those who are mature, for those who through practice have powers of discernment that are trained to distinguish good from evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if it is true that you have experienced that the Lord is good.