2 Samuel 19:35

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Sekarang ini aku telah berumur delapan puluh tahun; masakan aku masih dapat membedakan antara yang baik dan yang tidak baik? Atau masih dapatkah hambamu ini merasai apa yang hamba makan atau apa yang hamba minum? Atau masih dapatkah aku mendengarkan suara penyanyi laki-laki dan penyanyi perempuan? Apa gunanya hambamu ini lagi menjadi beban bagi tuanku raja?

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Sekarang ini aku telah berumur delapan puluh tahun; masakan aku masih dapat membedakan antara yang baik dan yang tidak baik? Atau masih dapatkah hambamu ini merasai apa yang hamba makan atau apa yang hamba minum? Atau masih dapatkah aku mendengarkan suara penyanyi laki-laki dan penyanyi perempuan? Apa gunanya hambamu ini lagi menjadi beban bagi tuanku raja?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa sekarang umur patik sudah delapan puluh tahun, manakan patik dapat lagi membedakan antara jahat dengan baik; manakan patik dapat lagi merasai sedapnya barang yang patik makan dan minum kelak; manakan patik mendengar lagi akan bunyi suara biduan laki-laki dan perempuan; betapa gerangan patik ini memberatkan lagi tuanku?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

can I discern: Job 6:30, Job 12:11, Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 2:3

taste: Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

I hear: Ezra 2:65, Nehemiah 7:67, Exodus 2:8, Exodus 12:4

a burden: 2 Samuel 13:25, 2 Samuel 15:33

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:9 - when Psalms 90:10 - yet Ecclesiastes 2:8 - men singers Ecclesiastes 12:4 - all Luke 7:25 - are in

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] this day fourscore years old,.... Not that that day was precisely his birthday, but that he was about such an age, very little under or over; very probably he was full that age:

[and] can I discern between good and evil? signifying, either that his intellectual powers were impaired, and could not distinguish what was right and wrong, and so could be of no service to David in his privy council, or any court of judicature, he was fit for no post or office under him; or that his natural senses were not quick to distinguish between good and bad, particularly between good and bad food, which he could neither discern by smell nor taste, as follows:

can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? have any gust or relish of, or take any delight or pleasure in eating and drinking; so that the most delicious food, and richest wines, and all the dainties of a king's table, would signify nothing to him:

can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? either being so deaf that he could not hear them at all, or however not with any delight; the evil days being come upon him, in which he could take no pleasure in the diversions of a court:

wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? he could neither take any pleasure himself, nor be of any service to the king, but on the contrary a burden to him; not only on account of his sustenance, and being obliged to have servants to attend him, which might be the least part of his burden, but his company would be disagreeable and troublesome, through the infirmities of old age upon him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 19:35. Can thy servant taste what I eat — Here is at once an affecting description of the infirmities of old age; and a correct account of the mode of living at an Eastern court in ancient times.

Barzillai was fourscore years old; his ear was become dull of hearing, and his relish for his food was gone: he therefore appears to have been not only an old man, but an infirm old man. Besides delicate meats and drinks, we find that vocal music constituted a principal part of court entertainments: male and female singers made a necessary appendage to these banquets, as they do in most Eastern courts to the present day. As David was a most sublime poet, and emphatically styled the sweet singer of Israel, he no doubt had his court well supplied with vocal as well as instrumental performers; and, probably, with poets and poetesses; for it is not likely that he was the only poet of his time, though he undoubtedly was the most excellent.