²¹ Then his servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; now that the child has died, you get up and eat food!” ²² He said, “When the child was still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, ‘Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.’ ²³ But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me.”