Psalms 90:12

World English Bible (2000)

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 39:4 : 4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
  • John 9:4 : 4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
  • Eph 5:16-17 : 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
  • Prov 4:7 : 7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
  • Prov 2:2-6 : 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: 5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 3:13-18 : 13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Prov 8:32-36 : 32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it. 34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. 35 For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
  • Prov 18:1-2 : 1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. 2 A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.
  • Prov 22:17 : 17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
  • Prov 23:12 : 12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
  • Prov 7:1-4 : 1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. 2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
  • Prov 4:5 : 5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
  • Luke 12:35-40 : 35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning. 36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them. 38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so. 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

    8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

    9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

    11 Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

  • Ps 90:13-17
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    13 Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

    14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

    15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

    16 Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

    17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4 "Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

    5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

  • Job 12:12
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    12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

  • Job 8:9-10
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    9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

    10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?

  • Lam 5:21
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    21 Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we shall be turned. Renew our days as of old.

  • Eccl 12:1
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    1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;"

  • Ps 34:12
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    12 Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

  • Lam 3:40
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    40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

  • Ps 119:33
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    33 Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end.

  • Prov 9:10-11
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    10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

    11 For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • 1 Kgs 8:40
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    40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Job 32:7
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    7 I said, 'Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.'

  • Job 10:5
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    5 Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

  • Ps 90:3-4
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    3 You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

    4 For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

  • Job 17:11
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    11 My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

  • 2 Chr 6:31
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    31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

  • Ps 86:11
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    11 Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

  • Eccl 11:9
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    9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

  • Deut 32:29
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    29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Ps 119:12
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    12 Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

  • Prov 23:12
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    12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:19
    69%

    19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Job 5:27
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    27 Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

  • Ps 119:37
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    37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

  • Job 37:19
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    19 Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

  • Ps 111:10
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    10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!

  • Prov 10:27
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    27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

  • Eccl 12:13
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    13 This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

  • Prov 2:2
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    2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 4:4
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    4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

  • Ps 102:24
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    24 I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

  • Prov 3:2
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    2 for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

  • Eccl 7:17
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    17 Don't be too wicked, neither be foolish. Why should you die before your time?

  • Job 15:9
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    9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us?