Psalm 90:10

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.

The days, etc

Genesis 47:9

Deuteronomy 34:7

Yet

2 Samuel 19:35

1 Kings 1:1

Ecclesiastes 12:2

For

James 4:14

General references

Exodus 7:7

Joshua 14:11

Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

The days, etc

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.

Yet

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

For

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

General references

And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?