Psalms 90:10
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
11Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.
Joshua 14:11And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.
2 Samuel 19:36Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?
Job 5:7But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
Job 20:8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like 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 →