23 Bible Verses about Age, Span Of Life

Can you live longer by worrying about it?

Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to your life?

Jehovah kills and makes alive. He brings down to the grave and brings up.

Your eyes saw my embryo and all were written in your book; the days ordained for me. Even this before one had taken place.

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. You should say, If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.

Altogether, Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years, and then he died.

Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.

Noah lived a total of nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.

Jehovah said: My Spirit will not contend (judge) (plead) with man forever, for he is mortal and corrupt. Therefore his days will be a hundred and twenty years.

Abraham lived one hundred and seventy-five years.

Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, until he was a hundred and forty-seven years old.

The days of our lives are seventy or eighty years if we are in good health. But the best of them bring trouble and misery. Indeed, they are soon gone, and we fly away.

David was thirty years old when he became king. He ruled for forty years. In Hebron he ruled Judah for seven years and six months. In Jerusalem he ruled for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

Barzillai answered: I do not have long to live. Why should I go with Your Majesty to Jerusalem? 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 in that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years like the lifespan of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am. Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

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.

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.

Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?

You turn men back into dust and say: Return, O sons of men! In your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday, already past like an hour in the night. You sweep mortals away in the sleep of death. They sprout again in the morning like grass.read more.
In the morning they blossom and sprout. In the evening they fade and wither away.

Respect for Jehovah prolongs life. The years of the wicked will be shortened.

I will satisfy you with a long life. I will show you my salvation.

My son, do not forget my law. Let your heart obey my commandments. My precepts will give you a long, peaceful, and prosperous life.