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] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
Deuteronomy 34:7
{Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years old} {when he died}; {his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated}.

Yet

2 Samuel 19:35
I [am] eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?
1 Kings 1:1
Now King David had become old, {advanced in years}, and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm.
Ecclesiastes 12:2
Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken and the clouds return after the rain.

For

Psalm 78:39
for he remembered that they [were] flesh, a passing wind that does not return.
Job 14:10
"But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he?
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like weaver. He cuts me off from [the] thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
James 4:14
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.

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
Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength [was] then, so now also [is] my strength for war {and for daily activities}.
Zechariah 1:5
"Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?