Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a [passing] thought.
11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7And if it be from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels.
Joshua 14:11I am still this day strong, as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.
2 Samuel 19:36Thy servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it to me with this reward?
Job 5:7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
Job 20:8He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is 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 →