Bible Verses About Contentment: Barzillai

The king said to Barzillai, "Come on across with me, and I will provide for your needs with me in Yerushalayim."

Barzillai said to the king, "How much longer can I live, that I should go up with the king to Yerushalayim?

I am now eighty years old. Can I tell good from bad? Can your servant even taste what he eats or drinks? Can I hear the voice of men and women singing any more? Why should your servant burden my lord the king?

Your servant only wants to cross the Yarden with the king; why should the king reward this so generously?

Please, just let your servant go back and die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Khimham; let him cross with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."