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 answered: My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

Yet

I am already eighty years old. Nothing gives me pleasure any more. I cannot taste what I eat and drink. I cannot hear the voices of singers. I would only be a burden to my lord the king.

Now King David was old and advanced in years. They put covers over him but he could not get warm.

Before the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are darkened, or the clouds return after the rain:

For

He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.

On the other hand man dies and is laid low. He breathes his last and is no more!

My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd's tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day.

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

General references

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

So far 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 is now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

Your fathers, where are they?' The prophets, do they live forever?