2 Samuel 19:35

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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

David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

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.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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;”

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

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.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore I have also given him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is given to Yahweh.” He worshiped Yahweh there.

But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred sixty-six talents of gold,

in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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.

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;

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn’t realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn’t realize it.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,

He said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him along the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” The young woman went and called the child’s mother.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.

No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days.

If the person is from sixty years old and upward; if he is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.

At that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

The king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let’s not all go, lest we be burdensome to you.” He pressed him; however he would not go, but blessed him.

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Then your servant said, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring rest; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad. May Yahweh, your God, be with you.’ ”

The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;

Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

in addition to their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven. They had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women.

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Is there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?

Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!

For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.

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

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious: