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
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Deuteronomy 34:7
And Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

Yet

2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day eighty years old, and shall I tell the difference between the good and the bad? Shall thy slave enjoy what I eat or what I drink? Shall I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should thy slave be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
1 Kings 1:1
Now king David was old and stricken in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he did not become warm.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain:

For

Psalm 78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh: a wind that passes away and does not come again.
Job 14:10
But when man shall die and be cut off, and the man shall perish, where shall he be?
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling place has been moved and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent; he has cut off my life like a weaver: he has cut me off with sickness: between the day and the night thou shalt consume me.
Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?
James 4:14
and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

General references

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