Psalm 90:10
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10 The days of our life are seventy years
or perhaps eighty, if we are strong;
even then their span[a] is only toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.(A)
Footnotes
- 90.10 Cn Compare Gk Syr Jerome Tg: Heb pride
James 4:14
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14 Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.(A)
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Psalm 78:39
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39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.(A)
2 Samuel 19:35
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35 Today I am eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?(A)
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Genesis 47:9
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9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”
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Deuteronomy 34:7
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7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired, and his vigor had not abated.(A)
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1 Kings 1:1
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The Struggle for the Succession
1 King David was old and advanced in years, and although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
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Job 24:24
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24 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;[a]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.(A)
Footnotes
- 24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
Job 14:10
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
Isaiah 38:12
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12 My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent;
like a weaver I have rolled up my life;
he cuts me off from the loom;
from day to night you bring me to an end;(A)
Ecclesiastes 12:2-7
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2 before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return with[a] the rain; 3 in the day when the guards of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the women who grind cease working because they are few, and those who look through the windows see dimly; 4 when the doors on the street are shut, and the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low;(A) 5 when one is afraid of heights, and terrors are in the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[b] and the caper bud falls; because all must go to their eternal home, and the mourners will go about the streets;(B) 6 before the silver cord is snapped,[c] and the golden bowl is broken, and the pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath[d] returns to God who gave it.(C)
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Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’(A)
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Job 20:8
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8 They will fly away like a dream and not be found;
they will be chased away like a vision of the night.(A)
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