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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.
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Life's Sobering Limits
Commentators agree that this verse establishes a general, shortened lifespan of 70-80 years. This is not a promise but a description of our fragile and brief existence. Even a life extended by "strength" to eighty years is often marked by "labor and sorrow." This realism is meant to counter our tendency to presume we have unlimited time and to encourage us to prepare for eternity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The days of our years - Margin, “As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.” Perhaps the language would be better translated: …
19th Century
Anglican
Yet is their strength ... —The Septuagint (and the Vulgate likewise) seems to have had a slightly different reading, which makes much bett…
Baptist
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; –
This was a gloomy fact to Moses, who lived to be a hundred and twenty years of…
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16th Century
Protestant
In the days of our years there are threescore years and ten. He again returns to the general doctrine concerning the precariousness of the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The days of our years are threescore years and ten In the Hebrew text it is, "the days of our years in them are"
The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be seen coming from the…
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