Psalms 90:10

the days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered spider:

11Who knoweth the power of thy anger, and for thy fear

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Cross References

Genesis 6:3And God said: My spirit shall not remain in man for ever, because he is flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

Leviticus 27:7A man that is sixty years old or upward, shall give fifteen aisles: a woman ten.

Joshua 14:11As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land : the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to march.

2 Samuel 19:36I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.

Job 5:7Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

Job 20:8As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass 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 →

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