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

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

Yet

I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I continue to be a burden to my lord the king?

King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;

For

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

But man dies and is powerless; he expires -- and where is he?

My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd's tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'

You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.

General references

Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.

"As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?