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 to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father
Deuteronomy 34:7
And Moses was a 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. Can I discern between good and bad? Can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my
1 Kings 1:1
Now king David was old and stricken in years, and they covered him with clothes, but he did not get 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
And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night thou will make an end of me.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?
James 4:14
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

General references

Exodus 7:7
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Joshua 14:11
As yet I am as strong this day 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 forever?