2 Samuel 3:33 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³³ The king sang this lament for Abner: ‘Should Abner have died as the lawless die?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ And the king lamented over Abner and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

Common English Bible

³³ Then the king sang this funeral song for Abner: “Should Abner have died like a fool dies?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ And the king, mourning and lamenting Abner, said: "By no means has Abner died the way that cowards usually die.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³³ And the king, mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die hath Abner died.

2 Samuel 3:33 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 1:17

David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,

2 Samuel 3:34

Your hands were not bound, your feet were not fettered. You fell as one falls before the wicked.’ And all the people wept over him again.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and to this day all the male and female singers commemorate Josiah in the laments. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools.

Ezekiel 32:16

‘This is the lament they will chant for her. The daughters of the nations will chant it; for Egypt and all her hordes they will chant it, declares the Sovereign Lord.’