2 Samuel 14:14

We must all die ; we are like water spilled on the ground , which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life , and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast .

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But that is not what God desires; rather, he devises ways so that a banished person does not remain banished from him.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person : yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.