but starting at 50 years of age, he is to retire from service and is no longer to work.

You people, how long will you malign my reputation? How long will you love what is vain and what is false? Interlude

How long? LORD, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

"Here are the measurements of the altar in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long: its base is a cubit long and a cubit wide, and its border around the edge at one handbreadth is to be the height of the altar.

How long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked continue to triumph?

"You naive ones, how long will you love naivety And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing or fools hate knowledge?"

Listen, my son: accept my words, and you'll live a long, long time.

All of a sudden, we were at the exterior wall that completely surrounded the Temple. The man whom I had observed held a measuring reed that was six cubits long as measured in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long. As he measured the thickness of the wall, he measured out one reed. Its height was also one reed.

Then he measured the Temple. It was 100 cubits long, and the courtyard, its building, and its walls were 100 cubits long.

so that you and your children may live long on the land that the LORD promised to give your ancestors as long as the sky remains above the earth."

When David's friend Hushai the Archite approached Absalom, Hushai greeted Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Each wing of one cherub was five cubits long, and each wing of the other cherub was five cubits long, so that the distance from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing was ten cubits.

The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.

The wingspan of the cherubim was 20 cubits; the wing of one, five cubits long, touched the wall of the Temple, and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.

The wing of the other cherub, five cubits long, touched the opposite wall of the Temple and its other wing, five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.

"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

As long as I can breathe; as long as God's breath is in my nostrils,

"Then I turned my head to look, and to my surprise, a two-horned ram was standing beside the canal. The two horns grew long, the first one growing longer than the second, with the longer one springing up last.

He stood up and shook the land; with his stare he startled the nations. The age-old mountains were shattered, and the ancient hilltops bowed down. His ways are eternal.

and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom at the age of 62.

Now as for you, keep on going until the end you'll rest and then rise to receive your reward at the end of the age.'"

Then Job died at an old age, having lived a full life.

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "There will yet be old men and old women sitting in the parks of Jerusalem, each one of them holding canes in their hands due to their old age!

Also, when I reach old age and have gray hair, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your power to this generation and your might to the next one.

They will still bear fruit even in old age; they will be luxuriant and green.

Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.

I have seen it all during my pointless life: both a righteous person who dies while he is righteous, and a wicked person who lives to an old age, while remaining wicked.

Even until your old age, I am the one, and I'll carry you even until your gray hairs come. It is I who have created, and I who will carry, and it is I who will bear and save.

And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You'll raise up the age-old foundations, and people will call you "Repairer of Broken Walls,' "Restorer of Streets to Live In.'

I made you increase like sprouting grain in the field. As a result, you multiplied greatly. Eventually, you reached the age when young women start wearing jewelry. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown, but you were still bare and naked."'"

when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.

Now Abraham had grown old, was well advanced in age, and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.

My master's wife Sarah gave birth to my master's son in her old age, and Abraham has given him everything that belongs to him.

then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.

where Terah died at the age of 205 years.

Now as for you, you'll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age.

Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. Abraham and Sarah were old really old and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.

Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

Now Israel's eyesight had become poor from age. Because he couldn't see well, Joseph brought them close to him, and Israel kissed them both and embraced them.

Some time later, Joseph died at the age of 110 years, and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.