English Standard Version
Psalms 90:10
10The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
Psalms 90:10 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty. But even the best years are filled with pain and trouble; soon they disappear, and we fly away.
Context of Psalms 90:10
8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh. The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. 11Who considers the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear of you? 12So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Read all of Psalms 90Psalms 90:10 word by word
יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- The daysיוֹםyôm · day: yearH3117
- of our yearsשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
- threescoreשִׁבְעִיםshib‛îym · seventyH7657
- and if by reason of strengthגְּבוּרָהgebûrâh · mightH1369
- fourscoreשְׁמֹנִיםshemônîym shemônîym · eightyH8084
- their strengthרֹ֫הָבrôhâb · prideH7296
- labourעָמָל‛âmâl · troubleH5999
- and sorrowאָ֫וֶן'âven · evil: troubleH205
- for it is soonחִישׁchîysh · quicklyH2440
- cut offגּוּזgûz · to cut offH1468
- and we fly awayעוּף‛ûph · to flyH5774
Cross-references for Psalms 90:10
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."
- Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
- 2 Samuel 19:35I am this day 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?
- 1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and advanced in years. And although they covered him with clothes, he could not get warm.
- Ecclesiastes 12:2before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain,
- Psalms 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 24:24They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.
- Isaiah 38:12My 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;
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'
- James 4:14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Commentaries on Psalms 90:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Threescore years and ten - See the note on the title of this Psalm 90 (note). This Psalm could not have been written by Moses, because the term of human life was much more extended when he flourished than eighty years at the most. Even in David's time many lived one hundred years, and the author of Ecclesiasticus, who lived after the captivity, fixed this term at one hundred years at the most (Sirach 18:9); but this was merely a general average, for even…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10The days of our years - Margin, “As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years.” Perhaps the language would better be translated: “The days of our years! In them are seventy years;” or, they amount to seventy years. Thus the psalmist is represented as reflecting on human life - on the days that make up the years of life; - as fixing his thought on those days and years, and taking the sum of them. The days of our years - what are they? Are…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-11Verses 7-11 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 displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to God, and shall be reckoned for. See the folly of those who go about to cover their sins, for they cannot do so. Our years, when gone, can no more be recalled than the words that we have spoken. Our whole life is toilsome and troublesome; and perhaps, in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10A groan of sorrow (Ezekiel 2:10) represents a life facing the consequences of sin. Humans create trouble (see Psalm 10:6) and receive pain as a result.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Moses' life was an exception (De 34:7). it is ... cut off--or, "driven," as is said of the quails in using the same word (Nu 11:31). In view of this certain and speedy end, life is full of sorrow.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 90
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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