^{35 36} A son of eighty years I^▵ am today. Can I know between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I still hear the voice of men singing and woman singing? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to^▵ my lord the king?

⁹ So may God do to Abner, and so may He add unto him, if^▫ as^◦ Jehovah has promised to David, I do not even so to him,