9 Bible Verses about Living Long
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Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.
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