21 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life

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James 4:14-15

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone. But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

Genesis 5:27

And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

Genesis 25:7

Now the years of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

2 Samuel 5:4-5

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years, Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

2 Samuel 19:34-35

And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king? I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

Isaiah 23:15

And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.

Psalm 39:4-6

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am. You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.) Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Proverbs 3:1-2

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart: For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

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