Psalms 90:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I continue to be a burden to my lord the king?
  • Ps 78:39 : 39 He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.
  • 1 Kgs 1:1 : 1 ¶ Adonijah Tries to Seize the Throne King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
  • Deut 34:7 : 7 Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
  • Eccl 12:2-7 : 2 before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain; 3 when those who keep watch over the house begin to tremble, and the virile men begin to stoop over, and the grinders begin to cease because they grow few, and those who look through the windows grow dim, 4 and the doors along the street are shut; when the sound of the grinding mill grows low, and one is awakened by the sound of a bird, and all their songs grow faint, 5 and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets– 6 before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern– 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 38:12 : 12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • Job 20:8 : 8 Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

  • Ps 90:11-15
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    79%

    11Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

    12So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

    13Turn back toward us, O LORD! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

    14Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love! Then we will shout for joy and be happy all our days!

    15Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, in proportion to the years we have experienced trouble!

  • Ps 90:3-7
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    74%

    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

    4Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

    5You bring their lives to an end and they“fall asleep.” In the morning they are like the grass that sprouts up;

    6in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

    7Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

  • Job 10:5
    73%

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Ps 103:15-16
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    72%

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

    16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 8:9
    72%

    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 89:47
    71%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Eccl 11:8
    71%

    8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.

  • Ps 102:23-24
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    71%

    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • Prov 10:27
    71%

    27Fearing the LORD prolongs life, but the life span of the wicked will be shortened.

  • Isa 38:10
    71%

    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    70%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Job 15:10
    70%

    10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    70%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Job 7:6
    70%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

  • Ps 78:33
    69%

    33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

  • Job 17:11
    69%

    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • Ps 71:9
    69%

    9Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

  • Isa 40:30
    69%

    30Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.

  • Ps 102:11
    69%

    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

  • Gen 47:9
    69%

    9Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

  • Ps 146:4
    69%

    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

  • Gen 35:28
    69%

    28Isaac lived to be 180 years old.

  • Job 9:25
    68%

    25Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

  • Job 14:10
    68%

    10But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?

  • Lam 4:18
    68%

    18צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

  • Isa 65:20
    68%

    20Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

  • Ps 71:18
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    18Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.

  • Ps 95:10
    68%

    10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

  • Eccl 11:10
    68%

    10Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

  • Gen 6:3
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    3So the LORD said,“My Spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.”

  • Isa 38:12
    68%

    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.