23 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life

'And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

Jehovah putteth to death, and keepeth alive, He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing; instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'

And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth.

And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.

and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they are flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

And these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years;

and Jacob liveth in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the days of Jacob, the years of his life, are an hundred and forty and seven years.

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

A son of thirty years is David in his being king; forty years he hath reigned; in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.

And Barzillai saith unto the king, 'How many are the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem? A son of eighty years I am to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.

Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am. Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah. Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men. For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night. Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.read more.
In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.