'Lifetime' in the Bible
And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.
I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.
But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,