Psalm 90:10 “The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— y…”

Psalm 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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.

Darby Translation

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

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Cross references

“The days, etc”

Genesis 47:9 Deuteronomy 34:7

Genesis 47:9 · BSB

“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.”

Deuteronomy 34:7 · BSB

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

“yet”

2 Samuel 19:35 1 Kings 1:1 Ecclesiastes 12:2–7

2 Samuel 19:35 · BSB

I 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…

1 Kings 1:1 · BSB

Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

Ecclesiastes 12:2–7 · BSB

before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

“for”

James 4:14 Psalm 78:39 Job 14:10 Job 24:24 Isaiah 38:12 Luke 12:20

James 4:14 · BSB

You 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.

Psalm 78:39 · BSB

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Job 14:10 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Job 24:24 · BSB

They 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.

Isaiah 38:12 · BSB

My 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.

Luke 12:20 · BSB

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Also

Job 20:8

Job 20:8 · BSB

He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

11Who knows the power of Your anger? Your wrath matches the fear You are due.

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