The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty if we are strong--yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away. Cross References 2 Samuel 19:35 I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king? 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! Job 20:8 He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night. Psalm 78:39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return. Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain, Jeremiah 20:18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame? Treasury of Scripture The days of our years are three score years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. the days, etc. Genesis 47:9 Deuteronomy 34:7 yet 2 Samuel 19:35 1 Kings 1:1 Ecclesiastes 12:2-7 for Psalm 78:39 Job 14:10 Job 24:24 |