Psalm 90:10

Contemporary English Version 1995

We can expect seventy years, or maybe eighty, if we are healthy, but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow. Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.

Cross References

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

Psalm 78:39

God remembered that they were made of flesh and were like a wind that blows once and then dies down.

2 Samuel 19:35

I'm already 80 years old, and my body is almost numb. I can't taste my food or hear the sound of singing, and I would be nothing but a burden.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only 130 years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was still good, and his body was strong.

1 Kings 1:1

King David was now an old man, and he always felt cold, even under a lot of blankets.

Job 24:24

Great for a while; gone forever! Sinners are mowed down like weeds, then they wither and die.

Job 14:10

Humans are different— we die, and that's the end.

Isaiah 38:12

My life was taken from me like the tent that a shepherd pulls up and moves. You cut me off like thread from a weaver's loom; you make a wreck of me day and night.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, “You fool! Tonight you will die. Then who will get what you have stored up?”

Job 20:8

They will be forgotten like a dream

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than 120 years.”

Joshua 14:11

I'm just as strong today as I was then, and I can still fight as well in battle.

2 Samuel 19:36

I'll cross the river with you, but I'll only go a little way on the other side. You don't have to be so kind to me.

Job 5:7

it's all part of life, like sparks shooting skyward.