2 Samuel 14:12-14

Revised Geneva Translation

¹² Then the woman said, “Please, let your handmaid speak a word to my lord the king.” And he said, “Speak.”

¹³ Then the woman said, “Why, then, have you thought such a thing against the people of God? Or does the king speak as one who is at fault, in that he will not bring back his banished?

¹⁴ “For we must die and be as water, spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet does God take away life; but He appoints means by which not to cast the expelled out from Him.