New Revised Standard Version
David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down; or his day will come to die; or he will go down into battle and perish.

Contemporary English Version
As surely as the LORD lives, the LORD will kill Saul, or Saul will die a natural death or be killed in battle.

New American Bible
As the LORD lives,” David declared, “only the LORD can strike him: either when the time comes for him to die, or when he goes out and perishes in battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

the Lord liveth

1 Samuel 24:15 Be the Lord judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand.

1 Samuel 25:26,38 Now therefore, my lord, the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, who hath withholden thee from coming to blood, and hath saved thy hand to thee: and now let thy enemies be as Nabal, and all they that seek evil to my lord. . . .

Psalm 94:1,2,23 The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth: the God of revenge hath acted freely. . . .

Luke 18:7 And will not God revenge his elect who cry to him day and night? And will he have patience in their regard?

Romans 12:19 Revenge not yourselves, my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Revelation 18:8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge her.

his day

Genesis 47:29 And when he saw that the day of his death drew nigh, he called his son Joseph, and said to him: If I have found favour in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh; and thou shalt shew me this kindness and truth, not to bury me in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 31:14 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony:

Job 7:1 The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Job 14:5,14 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. . . .

Psalm 37:10,13 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: and thou shalt seek his place, and shalt not find it. . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment:

he shall descend

1 Samuel 31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men that same day together.

Deuteronomy 32:35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.