Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
KJV
Non accedet ad te malum, et flagellum non appropinquabit tabernaculo tuo.
Vulgate
οὐ προσελεύσεται πρὸς σὲ κακά, καὶ μάστιξ οὐκ ἐγγιεῖ τῷ σκηνώματί σου·
LXX
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
ASV
יְמֵֽי שְׁנוֹתֵ֨י/נוּ בָ/הֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְ/אִ֤ם בִּ/גְבוּרֹ֨ת שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭/רָהְבָּ/ם עָמָ֣ל וָ/אָ֑וֶן כִּי גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַ/נָּעֻֽפָ/ה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 14.—That the Years in Those Ancient Times Were of the Same Length as Our Own. Let us now see how it can be plainly made out that in the enormously protracted lives of those men the years were not so short that ten of their years were equal to only one of ours, but were of as great length as our own, which are measured by the course of the sun. It is proved by this, that…
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. This is the only Psalm attributed to Moses. It meditates on the eternity of God in contrast with the brevity and frailty of human life. A thousand years in God's sight are but as yesterday. The days of our years are threescore years and ten — yet even the length of days is filled with labor and sorrow. Therefore Moses …
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 1:1 — Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- 1Kgs 1:1 — Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
- 1Sam 3:2 — And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
- 2Chr 24:15 — But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
- 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
- 2Sam 19:35 — I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore
- 2Sam 19:35 — I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore
- Deut 34:7 — And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
- Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
- Eccl 12:1 — Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
- Eccl 12:2 — While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- Exod 23:26 — There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
- Gen 5:5 — And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
- Gen 9:29 — And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
- Gen 47:9 — And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
- Gen 47:28 — And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
- Isa 38:12 — Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Jas 4:14 — Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
- Job 14:10 — But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
- Job 24:24 — They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
- Job 42:16 — After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
- Ps 71:9 — Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
- Ps 78:39 — For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
- Zech 1:5 — Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?