Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

1 Kings 1:1

King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

Job 14:10

But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?

Job 20:8

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Job 24:24

They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.'

Ecclesiastes 12:2-7

before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

James 4:14

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Bible References

The days, etc

Genesis 47:9
Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

Yet

2 Samuel 19:35
I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I continue to be a burden to my lord the king?
1 Kings 1:1
King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

For

Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
Job 14:10
But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
James 4:14
You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

General references

Exodus 7:7
Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Joshua 14:11
Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.
Zechariah 1:5
"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

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