Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
Leviticus 27:7If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
Joshua 14:11As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.
2 Samuel 19:36Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 20:8He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, 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 →