Bible Verses About Old Age

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he is the untimely birth.'

And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'

While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.

In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,

And doors have been shut in the street. When the noise of the grinding is low, And one riseth at the voice of the bird, And all daughters of song are bowed down.

Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper is become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going unto his home age-during, And the mourners have gone round through the street.

While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.

And the dust returneth to the earth as it was, And the spirit returneth to God who gave it.

Even to old age I am He, and to grey hairs I carry, I made, and I bear, yea, I carry and deliver.

and she is a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;