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 unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, and yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated.

Yet

I am this day four score year old: and therefore can not discern savoury from unsavoury, neither hath thy servant pleasure in that he eateth or drinketh: nor yet delectation in the songs of men or women. It is no need that thy servant be a burden unto my lord the king:

When king David was waxen old and stricken in years, though they covered him with clothes, yet he caught no heat.

before the sun, the light, the moon and stars be darkened, and or the clouds turn again after the rain;

For

For he considered that they were but flesh; even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

But as for man; when he is dead, perished and consumed away, what becometh of him?

Mine age is folden up together, and taken away from me, like a shepherd's cottage: my life is hewn off, like as a weaver cutteth off his web. While I was yet taking my rest, he hewed me off, and made an end of me in one day.'

But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

and yet cannot tell what shall happen tomorrow. For what thing is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

General references

And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty three when they spake unto Pharaoh.

and yet am as strong at this time, as I was when Moses sent me: look how strong I was then, so strong I am now, to war and to do all manner of things.

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?