2 Samuel 19:34-36

Modern English Version

³⁴ Barzillai said to the king, “How many days are left in my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 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? ³⁶ Your servant is merely crossing over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with this reward?