Psalms 90:10
Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.
11Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?
Cross References
Genesis 6:3And Jehovah saith, 'My Spirit doth not strive in man — to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Leviticus 27:7and if from a son of sixty years and above — if a male, then hath thy valuation been fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten shekels.
Joshua 14:11yet [am] I to-day strong as in the day of Moses' sending me; as my power then, so [is] my power now, for battle, and to go out, and to come in.
2 Samuel 19:36As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?
Job 5:7For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Job 20:8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven 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 →