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
So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”
Deuteronomy 34:7
Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

Yet

2 Samuel 19:35
I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
1 Kings 1:1
Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
before the sun and the light, the moon and the stars are darkened, and clouds return after the rain;

For

Psalm 78:39
Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.
Job 14:10
“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’
James 4:14
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

General references

Exodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Joshua 14:11
I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.
Zechariah 1:5
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?