Catholic Public Domain Version
"I, your servant, shall proceed a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense. "
— 2 Samuel 19:36, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”
“Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? ”
“Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?”
“I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?”
“I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.”
“Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?”
“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”
And so the king said to Barzillai, “Come with me, so that you may rest securely with me in Jerusalem.”
And Barzillai said to the king: “How many days remain in the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
Today I am eighty years old. Are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? Or is food and drink able to delight your servant? Or can I still hear the voice of men and women singers? Why should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
I, your servant, shall proceed a little ways from the Jordan with you. I am not in need of this recompense.
But I beg you that I, your servant, may be returned and may die in my own city, and may be buried beside the sepulcher of my father and my mother. But there is your servant Chimham; let him go with you, my lord the king. And do for him whatever seems good to you.”
And so the king said to him: “Let Chimham cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever will be pleasing to you. And all that you ask of me, you shall obtain.”
And when the entire people and the king had crossed over the Jordan, the king kissed Barzillai, and he blessed him. And he returned to his own place.