⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my ^(A)sojourning are 130 years. ^(B)Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and ^(C)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their ^(D)sojourning.”

¹¹ Beloved, I urge you ^(A)as sojourners and exiles ^(B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, ^(C)which wage war against your soul.

Job Continues: Death Comes Soon to All

²⁸ Now the days of Isaac were 180 years.

¹⁴ yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For ^(A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

⁹ By faith he went to live in ^(A)the land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^(B)living in tents ^(C)with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to ^(D)the city that has ^(E)foundations, ^(F)whose designer and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith ^(G)Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered ^(H)him faithful who had promised. ¹² Therefore from one man, and ^(I)him as good as dead, were born descendants ^(J)as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

¹³ These all died in faith, ^(K)not having received the things promised, but ^(L)having seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^(M)having acknowledged that they were ^(N)strangers and exiles on the earth. ¹⁴ For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, ^(O)they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed ^(P)to be called their God, for ^(Q)he has prepared for them a city.