But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none,
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
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