2 Samuel 12:23
World English Bible (WEB)
But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
In context
21 Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
22 He said, “While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who knows whether the LORD will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?’
23 But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
24 David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her. She bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. The LORD loved him;
25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for the LORD’s sake.
2 Samuel 12:23 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- But now he is dead. Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
- KJV King James Version
- But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and now, he hath died, why [is] this — I fast? am I able to bring him back again? I am going unto him, and he doth not turn back unto me.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But now he is dead, Why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.