Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 tale that is told.
11Who knoweth the power of Thine anger, and Thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto Thee?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the LORD said: 'My spirit shall not abide in man for ever, for that he also is flesh; therefore 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 valuation 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 19:36(19-37) Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Job 5:7But man is born unto 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 →