Psalm 90:10

Eternal God And Mortal Man

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For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.
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The days of our life are seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
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Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]
And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

Seventy Years

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day eighty years old. Can I [be useful to advise you to] discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I still hear the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Psalm 78:39

For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh,
A wind that goes and does not return.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

Deuteronomy 34:7

Although Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor his natural strength abated.

1 Kings 1:1

Now King David was old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.

Job 14:10

“But [the brave, strong] man must die and lie face down;
Man breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 20:8

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;
Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 24:24

“They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone;
Moreover, they are brought low and like everything [they are] gathered up and taken out of the way;
Even like the heads of grain they are cut off.

Ecclesiastes 12:2-7

before the sun and the light, and the moon and the stars are darkened [by impaired vision], and the clouds [of depression] return after the rain [of tears];

Isaiah 38:12

“My dwelling (body) is pulled up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent;
I have rolled up my life as a weaver [rolls up the finished web].
He cuts me free from the warp [of the loom];
From day to night You bring me to an end.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own all the things you have prepared?’

James 4:14

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].