Old Age

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The glory of young men is their strength. The splendor of old men is their gray hair.

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

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.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

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

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, 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.’

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

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

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

I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

He shall be to you a restorer of life, and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”

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

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. — read the full passage →

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

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

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

Don’t say, “Why were the former days better than these?” For you do not ask wisely about this.

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

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 gain a heart of wisdom.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: — read the full passage →

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

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. — read the full passage →

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to return answer to this people?”

I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.

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

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

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

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

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.”

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

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

If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

Your bars will be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will 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.

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; — read the full passage →

Behold, you have made my days hand breadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years. — read the full passage →

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

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

who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

Let the elders who 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.

You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that you may live, and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

“There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in 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 your father.

both young men and maidens; old men and children:

For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

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

Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “Old men and old women will again 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 on the work, and shall serve no more,

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. — read the full passage →

Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. — read the full passage →

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today. — read the full passage →

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: