2 Samuel 19:34

David Pardons His Enemies

³³ The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me.” ³⁴ But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? ³⁵ I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

How Long

Barzillai

Jerusalem

Genesis 47:8-9

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

Job 14:14

“If a man dies, will he live again?
All the days of my struggle I will wait
Until my change comes.

Psalm 39:5-6

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

1 Corinthians 7:29

But this I say, brethren, the time has been shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none;

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.