Verse 27

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 15:32-33 : 32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green. 33 He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.
  • Prov 3:2 : 2 For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.
  • Prov 9:11 : 11 For by me do thy days multiply, And added to thee are years of life.
  • Ps 55:23 : 23 And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
  • Ps 91:16 : 16 With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!
  • Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days `is' in her right hand, In her left `are' wealth and honour.
  • Job 22:15-16 : 15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden? 16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him -- length of days, Age-during -- and for ever.
  • Ps 34:11-13 : 11 Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you. 12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.
  • Eccl 7:17 : 17 Do not much wrong, neither be thou a fool, why dost thou die within thy time?
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, `Is' one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?