9 Bible Verses about Life Expectancy, Today

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.

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.

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.

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.

Man's days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

My future is in your hands. Rescue me from my enemies, from those who persecute me.

The day and the night are yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

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

From one person he made every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth. He determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation.