Psalms 90:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
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“The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Days of our years, in them <FI>are<Fi> seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet <FI>is<Fi> their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 90:10 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Leviticus 27:7And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
- Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
- Joshua 14:11still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
- 2 Samuel 19:35I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:36Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
- 1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
- Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- Job 24:24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
- Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.
- Ecclesiastes 12:2before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
- Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
- James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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