Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, {being} an hundred and ten years old.

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

And Moses {was} an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. {natural...: Heb. moisture} {abated: Heb. fled}

Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}

And Moses {was} fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as {in} a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

I {am} a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: {Terah: Gr. Thara}

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, {even} four generations.

And these {are} the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. {the whole...: Heb. the days of the years of his life}

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, {even} fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he {was} a very great man.

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

Therefore {we are} always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I {am} a stranger with thee, {and} a sojourner, as all my fathers {were}.

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. {The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years}

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of {them}, and embraced {them}, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. {in faith: Gr. according to faith}

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

I {am} a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old {was he} when he died.

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what {was} that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. {to give...: Heb. to draw my flesh with wine} {all...: Heb. the number of the days of their life}

If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.

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

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land {is} mine; for ye {are} strangers and sojourners with me. {for ever: or, to be quite cut off: Heb. for cutting off}

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning {here} in fear:

For all his days {are} sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

I {am} a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

All {things} have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just {man} that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked {man} that prolongeth {his life} in his wickedness.

Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: {two...: Heb. two years of days}

{One} generation passeth away, and {another} generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

All the days of the afflicted {are} evil: but he that is of a merry heart {hath} a continual feast.