Old Age

The hoary head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.

and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

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

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green:

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the hoary head.

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

With long life will I satisfy him, And show him my salvation.

He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

Andthylife shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.

yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. — read the full passage →

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, — read the full passage →

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come. — read the full passage →

He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy doings; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.

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

whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

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

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb; — read the full passage →

Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fifteen years. — read the full passage →

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that getteth understanding.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; — read the full passage →

Who satisfieth thy desire with good things, So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

Ye shall walk in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:

For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,

In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame. — read the full passage →

Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth. — read the full passage →

Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. — read the full passage →

Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

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