Psalm 90:10

Good News Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.”

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years.”

2 Samuel 19:35

I am already eighty years old, and nothing gives me pleasure any more. I can't taste what I eat and drink, and I can't hear the voices of singers. I would only be a burden to Your Majesty.

2 Samuel 19:36

I don't deserve such a great reward. So I will go just a little way with you beyond the Jordan.

1 Kings 1:1

King David was now a very old man, and although his servants covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

Job 14:10

But we die, and that is the end of us; we die, and where are we then?

Job 20:8

They will vanish like a dream, like a vision at night, and never be seen again.

Job 24:24

For a while the wicked prosper, but then they wither like weeds, like stalks of grain that have been cut down.

Job 5:7

No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only mortal beings, like a wind that blows by and is gone.

Isaiah 38:12

My life was cut off and ended, Like a tent that is taken down, Like cloth that is cut from a loom. I thought that God was ending my life.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good.

James 4:14

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

Joshua 14:11

and am just as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out. I am still strong enough for war or for anything else.