Psalms 90:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?
  • Ps 78:39 : 39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.
  • 1 Kgs 1:1 : 1 Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
  • Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • Job 24:24 : 24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
  • Eccl 12:2-7 : 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain; 3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see; 4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low; 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets; 6 Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole; 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Isa 38:12 : 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • Job 20:8 : 8 He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

  • Ps 90:11-15
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    79%

    11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

    12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

    13 Come back, O Lord; how long? let your purpose for your servants be changed.

    14 In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.

    15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

  • Ps 90:3-7
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    74%

    3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

    4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

    5 ...

    6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

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  • Job 10:5
    73%

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 8:9
    72%

    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • Ps 89:47
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    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Eccl 11:8
    71%

    8 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.

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

    24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Prov 10:27
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    27 The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    70%

    15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • Job 15:10
    70%

    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Job 7:6
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    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • Ps 78:33
    69%

    33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

  • Job 17:11
    69%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

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    9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

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    30 Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

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    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Job 30:2
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    2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

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    9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

    4 Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Gen 35:28
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    28 And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

  • Job 9:25
    68%

    25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

  • Job 14:10
    68%

    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

  • Lam 4:18
    68%

    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

  • Isa 65:20
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    20 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.

  • Ps 71:18
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    18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • Ps 95:10
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    10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • Eccl 11:10
    68%

    10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

  • Gen 6:3
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    3 And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.

  • Isa 38:12
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    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.