Eli was now ninety-eight years old and almost completely blind.)
Isaac was now old and had become blind. He sent for his older son Esau and said to him, “Son!” “Yes,” he answered.
So she went to Ahijah's home in Shiloh. Old age had made Ahijah blind.
Seventy years is all we have— eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.
One night Eli, who was now almost blind, was sleeping in his own room;
Eli heard the noise and asked, “What is all this noise about?” The man hurried to Eli to tell him the news. (