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 sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
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 and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
1 Kings 1:1
And king David was old and advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he obtained no warmth.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, be darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

For

Psalm 78:39
And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
Job 14:10
But a man dieth, and is prostrate; yea, man expireth, and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent. I have cut off like a weaver my life. He separateth me from the thrum: from day to night thou wilt make an end of me.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
James 4:14
ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

General references

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