Psalm 90:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

2 Samuel 19:35

Today I am eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

1 Kings 1:1

King David was old and advanced in years, and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Job 20:8

They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 24:24

They are exalted a little while and then are gone; they wither and fade like the mallow; they are cut off like the heads of grain.

Job 5:7

but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and does not come again.

Isaiah 38:12

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;

Leviticus 27:7

And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the equivalent for a male is fifteen shekels and for a female ten shekels.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired, and his vigor had not abated.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Joshua 14:11

I am still as strong today as I was on the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.