ECB(i)
16 and David beseeches Elohim for the lad; and David fasts a fast; and goes in and stays overnight on the earth.
17 And the elders of his house rise to him, to raise him off the earth: but he neither wills nor chews bread with them.
18 And so be it, on the seventh day, the child dies: and the servants of David awe to tell him the child died: for they say, Behold, while the child is yet alive, we worded to him and he hearkened not to our voice: how then works he himself evil if we say to him the child died?