2 Samuel 14:14-16

New American Standard Bible

¹⁴ For ^(A)we will surely die and are ^(B)like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. Yet God does not take away life, but makes plans so that ^(C)the banished one will not be cast out from Him. ¹⁵ Now then, ^[a]the reason I have come to speak this word to my lord the king is that the people have made me afraid; so your servant said, ‘Let me now speak to the king, perhaps the king will perform the ^[b]request of his slave. ¹⁶ For the king will listen, to save his slave from the ^[c]hand of the man who would eliminate ^[d]both me and my son from ^(D)the inheritance of God.’