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Psalms 90:10

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

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ASV

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
יְמֵֽי־ye.mei-[the] days ofH3117 →
שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּshe.no.Tei.nuyears ourH8141 →
בָהֶ֥םva.Hemin <the> them
שִׁבְעִ֪יםshiv.'Im[are] seventyH7657 →
שָׁנָ֡הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141 →
וְאִ֤םve.'Imand ifH518 →
בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת׀big.vu.Rotby strength<s>H1369 →
שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤יםshe.Mo.NimeightyH8084 →
שָׁנָ֗הsha.Nahyear[s]H8141 →
וְ֭רָהְבָּםVe.ra.he.bomand pride theirH7296 →
עָמָ֣ל'a.Mal[is] toilH5999 →
וָאָ֑וֶןva.'A.venand troubleH205 →
כִּי־ki-forH3588 →
גָ֥זgazit passes awayH1468 →
חִ֝֗ישׁChishquicklyH2440 →
וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃va.na.'U.fahand we flew away !H5774 →

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James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.Ecclesiastes 12:1Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.2 Samuel 19:35I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”Psalms 71:9Do not discard me in my old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails.Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?Job 24:24They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.Isaiah 38:12My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.Ecclesiastes 12:2–7before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,Zechariah 1:5Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?1 Samuel 3:2And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.2 Chronicles 24:15When Jehoiada was old and full of years, he died at the age of 130.Exodus 23:26No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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