Psalms 90:10
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
Leviticus 27:7And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
Joshua 14:11still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.
2 Samuel 19:36Your servant will go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in 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 →