Psalms 90:10
The days of our years in this life are seventy years; and if by uncommon vigor they be eighty, yet is their greatness trouble and mishap; for it soon hasteneth off, and we fly away.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we consume our years like a word that is spoken.
11Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive for the sake of man, for that he is but flesh; yet his days [of grace] shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7And if [the person be] from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, then shall the estimation be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Joshua 14:11I am yet this day as strong as I was on 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 will pass a little way over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with this reward?
Job 5:7But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
Job 20:8Like a dream will he fly away, and men will find him no more; yea, he will be chased away 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 →