2 Samuel 19:34
Good News Translation
But Barzillai answered, "I don't have long to live; why should I go with Your Majesty to Jerusalem?

New Revised Standard Version
But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

Contemporary English Version
Barzillai answered: Your Majesty, why should I go to Jerusalem? I don't have much longer to live.

New American Bible
But Barzillai answered the king: “How much longer have I to live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Berzellai 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?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Berzellai 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?

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Job 14:14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Psalm 39:5,6 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. . . .

1 Corinthians 7:29 This therefore I say, brethren: The time is short. It remaineth, that they also who have wives be as if they had none:

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

Context
David's Kindness to Barzillai
33And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem. 34And Berzellai 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?35I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?…
Cross References
Genesis 47:8
And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?

2 Samuel 19:33
And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 19:33
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