³² Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

² There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

³¹ Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

³ You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

⁴ For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.

⁵ You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

⁶ In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹ For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.

³ His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

²⁷ It happened, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

²⁸ brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

²⁹ and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people who were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

⁷ Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

²⁶ So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

²⁸ Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

⁷ These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

²⁹ All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

²⁷ All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.