2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.

Ver. 32. Now Barzillai was a very aged man.] Senex quasi seminex, he had lost his colour, but had kept his sweet savour with the rose: and like a flower, though he were withering, yet "the root of the matter was in him," as Job speaketh.

For he was a very great man.] Else he could not have so long sustained the king and his company. Crassus accounted no man rich that could not do as much. Pythias, by entertaining Xerxes and his great army, came to extreme poverty.