23 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life

But who from among you, being anxious, can add to his stature one cubit?

And, who from among you, though anxious, can, unto his stature, add a cubit?

Yahweh, doth kill, and make alive, - Taketh down to hades, and bringeth up:

Mine unfinished substance, thine eyes beheld, and, in thy book, all the parts thereof were written, - the days they should be fashioned! while yet there was not one among them.

Men who are not versed in the morrow - of what sort your life will be ; for ye are, a vapour - for a little, appearing, then, just disappearing! Instead of your saying - If, the Lord, be pleased, we shall both, live and do this or that;

So all the days of Adam which he lived, were nine hundred and thirty years, - and he died.

and all the days of Methuselah were, nine hundred and sixty-nine years, - and he died.

so, all the days of Noah, were - nine hundred and fifty years, - and he died.

And Yahweh said - My spirit shall not rule in man to times age - abiding, for that, he also, is flesh, - Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Now, these, are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived - a hundred and seventy-five years.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, - so it came to pass that the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.

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.

Thirty years old, was David when he began to reign, - forty years, he reigned: in Hebron, reigned he over Judah, seven years, and six months, - and, in Jerusalem, reigned he thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.

But Barzillai said unto the king, - Like unto what, are the days of the years of my life, that I should come up with the king, to Jerusalem. Eighty years old, am I to-day - could I discern between good and bad? or could thy servant taste what I might eat, and what I might drink? or could I hearken any more to the voice of singing men and singing women? Wherefore, then, should thy servant yet be a burden unto my lord the king?

So shall it be in that day, That Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, According to the days of a certain king: At the end of seventy years, shall it befall Tyre according to the song of the harlot:

Let me know, O Yahweh, mine end, And the measure of my days - what it is, I would know how short-lived I am. Lo! as hand-breadths, hast thou granted my days, and my life-time, is as nothing before thee, - Surely, a mere breath, are all men, even such as stand firm. Selah. Surely as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.

My days, are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they are spent, without hope.

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said - Return, ye sons of Adam! For, a thousand years, in thine eyes, are , As yesterday, in that it passed away, Or as a watch in the night. Thou hast snatched them away, A sleep, do they become, In the morning, they are like grass that shooteth up,read more.
In the morning, it sprouteth and shooteth up, By the evening, it is cut down and withered.

The reverence of Yahweh, addeth days, but, the years of the lawless, shall be shortened.

With length of days, will I satisfy him, And will show him my salvation.

My son, mine instruction, do not thou forget, and, my commandment, let thy heart observe; For, length of days and years of life, and blessedness, shall they and to thee.