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2 Kings 3:33

And the king mourning and lamenting over Abner, said: Not as cowards are wont to die, hath Abner died.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Plangensque rex, et lugens Abner, ait : Nequaquam ut mori solent ignavi, mortuus est Abner.
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ ἐθρήνησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ Ἀβεννὴρ καὶ εἶπεν Εἰ κατὰ τὸν θάνατον Ναβὰλ ἀποθανεῖται Ἀβεννήρ;
Hebrew (WLC)
וַיְקֹנֵ֥ן הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶל אַבְנֵ֖ר וַיֹּאמַ֑ר הַכְּמ֥וֹת נָבָ֖ל יָמ֥וּת אַבְנֵֽר

Haydock's commentary

Died. Hebrew, "Is Abner dead, like Nabal," "a fool," (Chaldean) "like the wicked?" "Ought so brave a man to have died in this treacherous manner?"

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.