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2 Samuel 19:35

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?

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KJV King James Version

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?

BSB Berean Standard Bible

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

WEB World English Bible

I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

ASV American Standard Version

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?

YLT Young’s Literal Translation

A son of eighty years I am to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

Surrounding context — 2 Samuel 19

32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.

33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

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?

36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, [and be buried] by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, [that] will I do for thee.

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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.

בֶּן־H1121 · benson: child שְׁמֹנִ֣יםH8084 · she.mo.nimeighty שָׁנָה֩H8141 · sha.nehyear אָנֹכִ֨יH595 · a.no.khiI הַיּ֜וֹםH3117 · yomday הַאֵדַ֣ע׀H3045 · ya.dato know בֵּין־H996 · ba.yinbetween ט֣וֹבH2896 · tovpleasant לְרָ֗עH7451 · rabad: harmful אִם־H518 · imif יִטְעַ֤םH2938 · ta.amto perceive עַבְדְּךָ֙H5650 · e.vedservant/slave אֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֲשֶׁ֤רH834 · a.sherwhich אֹכַל֙H398 · a.khalto eat וְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhich אֶשְׁתֶּ֔הH8354 · sha.tahto drink אִם־H518 · imif אֶשְׁמַ֣עH8085 · sha.mato hear: hear ע֔וֹדH5750 · odstill בְּק֖וֹלH6963 · qolvoice שָׁרִ֣יםH7891 · shirto sing וְשָׁר֑וֹתH7891 · shirto sing וְלָמָּה֩H4100 · mahwhat?יִֽהְיֶ֨הH1961 · ha.yahto be עַבְדְּךָ֥H5650 · e.vedservant/slave עוֹד֙H5750 · odstill לְמַשָּׂ֔אH4853 · mas.saburden אֶל־H413 · elto(wards)אֲדֹנִ֖יH113 · a.donlord הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃H4428 · me.lekhking

Cross-references

2 Samuel 15:33Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:Ezra 2:65Beside their servants and their maids, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and [there were] among them two hundred singing men and singing women.Psalm 90:10The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.1 Peter 2:3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord [is] gracious.Job 12:11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?Exodus 12:4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.Ecclesiastes 12:1-5Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;2 Samuel 13:25And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.Nehemiah 7:67Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom [there were] seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.Isaiah 5:11-12Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Exodus 2:8And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.Ecclesiastes 2:8I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and that of all sorts.Hebrews 5:14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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