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Psalm 90: 10 reads "The span of our life is 70 years, or 80 if one is especially strong."
Today, in many countries the general human life span remains within the range given by the psalmist. Our years are filled with "trouble and hurtful things". They pass quickly, " and away we fly." as explained in Job 14: 1,2.
James 4: 13-15 explain that we do not know what life will be like tomorrow, because we are mist that appears for a little while and then disappears. This is what our life is today.
However Genesis 5:1-31 reports people living up to more than 900 years. Why so? First of all Adam and Eve had the choice to live and never die. Read Genesis 2: 15-17 Adam knew that if he had not eaten from the tree of knowledge of good and bad he was going to live forever.
Genesis chapter 3 is mankind's history. that brought our life to only live 70/80 years which is very short compare those reported in Genesis 5: 1-31.
So Psalm 90: 10 is the reminder of how short life is.
Everlasting life for mankind is still part of God's purpose. Read John 17: 3 which reads" This means everlasting life, their coming to know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ".
1 John 4: 9 explains why Jesus came on earth " so we might gain life through him".
1John 5: 20 reads" We know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us insight ( mental perception; intellectual capacity) so we can gain knowledge of the one who is true. And we are in union with the one who is true, by means of his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting.
Adam and Eve left us an heredity which is death, but Jesus' death has given us the opportunity to live forever. The conditions to live forever have not changed. Read 1 Timothy 2: 4: " Whose will ( God's will ) is that all sorts of people should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man Christ Jesus.
1 John 5: 19 reminds us that the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one and Revelation 12: 9 explains who is the wicked one in these words. "the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth.
So we have the choice, God's influence that leads to everlasting life or Satan's influence that leads to the short life full of sufferings.
Jesus told us to pray for God's Kingdom to come in Matthew 6: 9,10, where God's will , will take place on earth.. Psalm 37: 9 and 29 shows that it is the righteous ones that will possess the earth and will live forever on it.
So we all have to make the right choice if we want the life we were meant to have in the first place
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The average man life expectancy given in the bible is Threescore and 10 (or 70 years). This number is found in various places about various things, but mention is made of four score and threescore and ten in reference to length of life in the same verse, that is Ps 90:10.
It doesn't. Psalm 90:10 says "The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
It's in the fourth book, which includes Psalms 90 to 106. See also:More about the Psalms
We don't. In spite of the usual attributions, scholars say that all the psalms, including both Psalm 90 and 91, were written during a relatively short period of only two hundred years, beginning with the Babylonian Exile.
It is hard to say , but Psalm 90 and 91 are of Moses.
psalm 90
Psalm 90 Verse 10 uses the term threescore and ten but like everthing else in scripture needs to be read in context. (don't leap to conclusions) To see the significance of this nunber download an electronic bible and have a look at the other 23 instances of this number patern ... http://www.e-sword.net/downloads.html
Whomever stays within God's provision and follows him; will have peace, comfort, strength and from Him.
Psalm 90:10
Psalm 90:10 in King James Version
Psalm 90 is said to be written by Moses and the oldest psalm of the Bible.
In Psalm 90, which is credited to Moses, verse 10, says: "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".
If you mean 90 - 9/10, then the answer's 89 1/10. If you mean 90 - nine-tenths of 90 [90 - 9/10(90)], then the answer's 9.
Moses interceding for Israel in song form
Psalm 90.
Psalm 90:10 Says: The length of our days is seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength. From the New International Version of the Bible.
Yes and no. Yes, no name is given. And no, because tradition states that this Psalm (and certain others) was originally spoken by Moses (Rashi commentary, on Psalm 90:1, referring also to Psalm 100).