Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Or if due to strength,
Yet their pride is but
For soon it is gone and we
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
International Standard Version
We live for 70 years, or 80 years if we're healthy, yet even in the prime years there are troubles and sorrow. They pass by quickly and we fly away.
A Conservative Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
American Standard Version
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Amplified
The days of our life are
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.
Darby Translation
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Julia Smith Translation
The days of our years, in them seventy years; and if in strengths, eighty years, and their pride labor and vanity; for being soon cut off and we shall fly away.
King James 2000
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].
Modern King James verseion
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
NET Bible
The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
New Heart English Bible
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
The Emphasized Bible
The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.
Webster
The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
World English Bible
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Youngs Literal Translation
Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
Themes
human Limitations » Man subject to » Time limited
Man » Limitations of » Time limited
Topics
References
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 90:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eternal God And Mortal Man
9
For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10
Or if due to strength,
Yet their pride is but
For soon it is gone and we
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Psalm 78:39
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
1 Kings 1:1
Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
Job 20:8
He will fly away like a dream and not be found; he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
Job 24:24
They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
Ecclesiastes 12:2-7
before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,
Isaiah 38:12
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
James 4:14
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.