Verse 10

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.

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.