Bible Verses About Old Age: General references

but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried in a good old age.

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

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

Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

He died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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

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.

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.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

both young men and maidens; old men and children:

let them praise the LORD’s name, for his name alone is exalted. His glory is above the earth and the heavens.

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