Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years, yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
11Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And LORD said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he also is flesh. Yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7And if it be from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Joshua 14:11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
2 Samuel 19:36Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king, and why should the king recompense it to me with such a reward?
Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 20:8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:8-12
Penitent Submission. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even… Read the whole commentary →