2Sa 19:35, 21:15-17, Psa 73:26, 90:10, Ecc 12:1-7 | ESV | STEP | I am this day eighty years old . Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not ? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks ? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women ? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king ?

2 Samuel 19:35

35 I am this day ^aeighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be ^ban added burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 21:15-17

War with the Philistines

15 There was war again between the Philistines and Israel, and David went down together with his servants, and they fought against the Philistines. And David grew weary. 16 And Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants ^cof the giants, whose spear weighed three hundred shekels ^{▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams} of bronze, and who was armed with a new sword, thought to kill David. 17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, ^e“You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench ^fthe lamp of Israel.”

Psalms 73:26

26 ^gMy flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is ^hthe strength ^{▼▼Hebrew rock} of my heart and my ^jportion ^kforever.

Psalms 90:10

10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span ^{▼▼Or pride} is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-7

Remember Your Creator in Your Youth

1 Remember also your Creator in ^mthe days of your youth, before ⁿthe evil days come and the years draw near of which ^oyou will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; 2 before ^pthe sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, 3 in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and ^qthose who look through the windows are dimmed, 4 and ^rthe doors on the street are shut—when ^sthe sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all ^tthe daughters of song are brought low— 5 they are afraid also of what is high, and ^uterrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, ^{▼▼Or is a burden} and desire fails, because man is going to his ^weternal ^xhome, and the ^ymourners go about the streets— 6 before the silver cord is snapped, or ^zthe golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is ^aashattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and ^abthe dust returns to the earth as it was, and ^acthe spirit returns to God ^adwho gave it.