Bible Verses About Old Age

As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

and Ya'akov replied, "The time of my stay on earth has been 130 years; they have been few and difficult, fewer than the years my ancestors lived."

Moshe was 120 years old when he died, with eyes undimmed and vigor undiminished.

Barzillai said to the king, "How much longer can I live, that I should go up with the king to Yerushalayim?

I am now eighty years old. Can I tell good from bad? Can your servant even taste what he eats or drinks? Can I hear the voice of men and women singing any more? Why should your servant burden my lord the king?

Your servant only wants to cross the Yarden with the king; why should the king reward this so generously?

Please, just let your servant go back and die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Khimham; let him cross with my lord the king; and do for him whatever seems good to you."

Then he died, at a ripe old age, full of years, riches and honor; and Shlomo his son reigned in his place.

You will come to your grave at a ripe old age, like a pile of grain that arrives in season.

your life will be brighter than noon; even its darkness will be like morning.

Is wisdom [only] with aged men? discernment [only] with long life?

Elihu had waited to speak to Iyov because they were older than he;

however, when Elihu saw that these three had no answer, his anger flared up.

Elihu the son of Barakh'el the Buzi said: "I am young, and you are old, so I held back from telling you my opinion.

I said, 'Age should speak; an abundance of years should teach wisdom.'

But it is the spirit in a person, the breath from Shaddai, that gives him understanding -

it isn't [only] the great who are wise or the aged who know how to judge.

Then, old and full of days, Iyov died.

Don't reject me when I grow old; when my strength fails, don't abandon me.

So now that I'm old, and my hair is gray, don't abandon me, God, till I have proclaimed your strength to the next generation, your power to all who will come,

The span of our life is seventy years, or if we are strong, eighty; yet at best it is toil and sorrow, over in a moment, and then we are gone.

Even in old age they will be vigorous, still full of sap, still bearing fruit,

young men and women alike, old men and children.

Let them praise the name of ADONAI, for his name alone is exalted; his glory is above both earth and heaven.

White hair is a crown of honor obtained by righteous living.