Psalms 90:10
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.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
11Who knows the power of yours anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then your estimation 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, both to go out, and to come in.
2 Samuel 19:36Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Job 5:7Yet 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 →