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 a 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 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 fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can your 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 your servant 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 got no heat.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

For

Psalm 78:39
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and comes not again.
Job 14:10
But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man expires, and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
My age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off from the loom: from day even to night will you make an end of me.
Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?
James 4:14
Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

General references

Exodus 7:7
And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
Joshua 14:11
Even 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, both to go out, and to come in.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?