And Jacob said to Pharaoh: the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers. The description of life as pilgrimage — few and difficult — is the honest testimony of a man who has known more grief than joy. The comparison to his fathers — Abraham 175, Isaac 180 — is the humble acknowledgment that his life, for all its difficulty, has been shorter and less settled. The application: the honest account of a difficult life, offered without self-pity or exaggeration, is the testimony of someone who has not avoided the truth about what living faithfully costs.

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