Psalm 90:10

New International Reader's Version

We live to be about 70. Or we may live to be 80, if we stay healthy. But even our best days are filled with trouble and sorrow. The years quickly pass, and we are gone.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my journey through life are 130. My years have been few and hard. They aren’t as many as the years of my father and grandfather before me.”

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not struggle with human beings forever. They will have only 120 years to live.”

2 Samuel 19:35

I’m already 80 years old. I can hardly tell the difference between what is enjoyable and what isn’t. I can hardly taste what I eat and drink. I can’t even hear the voices of male and female singers anymore. So why should I add my problems to yours?

2 Samuel 19:36

I’ll go across the Jordan River with you for a little way. Why should you reward me by taking care of me?

1 Kings 1:1

King David was now very old. He couldn’t keep warm even when blankets were spread over him.

Job 14:10

No man is like that. When he dies, he is buried in a grave. He takes his last breath. Then he is gone.

Job 20:8

Like a dream they will fly away. They will never be seen again. They will be driven away like visions in the night.

Job 24:24

For a little while they are honored. Then they are gone. They are brought low. And they die like everyone else. They are cut off like heads of grain.

Job 5:7

People are born to have trouble. And that’s just as sure as sparks fly up.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human. He remembered they were only a breath of air that drifts by and doesn’t return.

Isaiah 38:12

My body is like a shepherd’s tent. It has been pulled down and carried off. My life is like a piece of cloth that I’ve rolled up. You have cut it off from the loom. In a short period of time you have brought my life to an end.

Leviticus 27:7

The cost for a male who is sixty years old or more is 6 ounces of silver. The cost for a female of the same age is 4 ounces of silver.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish man! Tonight I will take your life away from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was 120 years old when he died. But his eyesight was still good. He was still very strong.

James 4:14

You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist that appears for a little while. Then it disappears.

Joshua 14:11

I’m still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. I’m just as able to go out to battle now as I was then.