Job 42:16

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?

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

When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”

Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

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

The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. Yahweh has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

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

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

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

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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;”

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.

She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

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.”

Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see well. Joseph brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.

Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

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.

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

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.

“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?’

So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

The name of the second, he called Ephraim: “For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

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

But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Yes, may you see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

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

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Terah died in Haran.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.

The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

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.

After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Joseph lived in Egypt, he, and his father’s house. Joseph lived one hundred ten years.

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred thirty-seven years.

I gave Gilead to Machir.

So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to Yahweh’s word.

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

After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

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.

Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore. She bore Machir the father of Gilead.

What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

If a man dies, will he live again? I would wait all the days of my warfare, until my release should come.

“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.

My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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.

Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.