23 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life
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And who among you, [by] being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span?
Your eyes saw my embryo, and in your book they all were written-- days fashioned [for me] when [there was] not one of them.
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears. Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he [is] also flesh. And his days [shall be] one hundred and twenty years."
Now these [are] the days of the years of {the life of Abraham}: one hundred and seventy-five years.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years.
As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].
David [was] thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years. He reigned over Judah at Hebron [for] seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem [for] thirty-three years.
Then Barzillai said to the king, "What [are] the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem? I [am] eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?
And this will happen on that day: And Tyre [will] be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king. At [the] end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:
"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I [am]." Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.
You return man to [the] dust, {saying}, "Return, O sons of man." For a thousand years in your eyes [are] like yesterday when it passes, or [like] a watch in the night. You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.read more.
In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.
My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands. For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you.
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- Span (16 instances)