OLD AGE

Passages on this topic · 39

• Genesis 15:15

  but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty 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 pilgrimage.”

• Deuteronomy 34:7

  Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

• 2 Samuel 19:34

  Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

• 2 Samuel 19:35

  I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

• 2 Samuel 19:36

  Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

• 2 Samuel 19:37

  Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:28

  He died at a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

• Job 5:26

  You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

• Job 11:17

  Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

• Job 12:12

  With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

• Job 32:4

  Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

• Job 32:5

  When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

• Job 32:6

  Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

• Job 32:7

  I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

• Job 32:8

  But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

• Job 32:9

  It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

• Job 42:17

  So Job died, being old and full of days.

• Psalms 71:9

  Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.

• Psalms 71:18

  Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

• Psalms 90:10

  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.

• Psalms 92:14

  They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

• Psalms 148:12

  both young men and maidens; old men and children:

• Psalms 148:13

  let them praise Yahweh’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

• Proverbs 16:31

  Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

• Ecclesiastes 6:3

  If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

• Ecclesiastes 6:6

  Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

• Ecclesiastes 12:1

  Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Ecclesiastes 12:3

  in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look out of the windows are darkened,

• Ecclesiastes 12:4

  and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low;

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

• Ecclesiastes 12:6

  before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Isaiah 46:4

  Even to old age I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear. Yes, I will carry, and will deliver.

• Luke 2:37

  and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

• Titus 2:2

  that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

• Titus 2:3

  and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

• Philemon 1:9

  yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.