Old Age

A crown of beauty <FI>are<Fi> grey hairs, In the way of righteousness it is found.

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

With the very aged <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And <FI>with<Fi> length of days understanding.

Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

The beauty of young men is their strength, And the honour of old men is grey hairs.

`At the presence of grey hairs thou dost rise up, and thou hast honoured the presence of an old man, and hast been afraid of thy God; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

But those expecting Jehovah pass <FI>to<Fi> power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

Sons' sons <FI>are<Fi> the crown of old men, And the glory of sons <FI>are<Fi> their fathers.

Days of our years, in them <FI>are<Fi> seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet <FI>is<Fi> their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

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,

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

And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man--to the age; in their erring they <FI>are<Fi> flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

And Moses <FI>is<Fi> a son of a hundred and twenty years when he dieth; his eye hath not become dim, nor hath his moisture fled.

and thou--thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

and he hath been to thee for a restorer of life, and for a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law who hath loved thee--who is better to thee than seven sons--hath borne him.'

And above the noon doth age rise, Thou fliest--as the morning thou art.

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

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.' — read the full passage →

God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. — read the full passage →

And it hath come to pass afterwards, I do pour out My Spirit on all flesh, And prophesied have your sons and your daughters, Your old men do dream dreams, Your young men do see visions.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth. — read the full passage →

and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.

Say not thou, `What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.

and Abraham expireth, and dieth in a good old age, aged and satisfied, and is gathered unto his people.

And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity, — read the full passage →

To number our days aright let <FI>us<Fi> know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

and she <FI>is<Fi> 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; — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

Remember days of old--Understand the years of many generations--Ask thy father, and he doth tell thee; Thine elders, and they say to thee:

and Job dieth, aged and satisfied <FI>with<Fi> days.

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might. — read the full passage →

Turning aside the lip of the stedfast, And the reason of the aged He taketh away.

And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

I have remembered days of old, I have meditated on all Thine acts, On the work of Thy hand I muse.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all <FI>things<Fi> ;

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings <FI>are<Fi> an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

and if thou dost walk in My ways to keep My statutes, and My commands, as David thy father walked, then I have prolonged thy days.'

Iron and brass <FI>are<Fi> thy shoes, And as thy days--thy strength.

and Moses <FI>is<Fi> a son of eighty years, and Aaron <FI>is<Fi> a son of eighty and three years, in their speaking unto Pharaoh.

because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

And Israel hath loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he <FI>is<Fi> a son of his old age, and hath made for him a long coat;

Hearken unto Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of Israel, Who are borne from the belly, Who are carried from the womb, — read the full passage →

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age <FI>is<Fi> as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity <FI>is<Fi> every man set up. Selah.

`And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I <FI>am<Fi> to-day a son of five and eighty years;

The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.

And these <FI>are<Fi> the days of the years of the life of Abraham, which he lived, a hundred and seventy and five years; — read the full passage →

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.' — read the full passage →

God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

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.' — read the full passage →

Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

I have been wroth against My people, I have polluted Mine inheritance And I give them into thy hand, Thou hast not appointed for them mercies, On the aged thou hast made thy yoke very heavy,

All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

O the happiness of a man <FI>who<Fi> hath found wisdom, And of a man <FI>who<Fi> bringeth forth understanding.

This <FI>is<Fi> an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him; — read the full passage →

Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and <FI>it is<Fi> well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

`Honour thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee, so that thy days are prolonged, and so that it is well with thee, on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

Both the gray-headed And the very aged <FI>are<Fi> among us--Greater than thy father <FI>in<Fi> days.

Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

That this God <FI>is<Fi> our God--To the age and for ever, He--he doth lead us over death!

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth. — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days.

and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more,

In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age. — read the full passage →

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not. — read the full passage →

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

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

`And, now, lo, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as He hath spoken, these forty and five years, since Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, when Israel went in the wilderness; and now, lo, I <FI>am<Fi> to-day a son of five and eighty years; — read the full passage →

Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest. — read the full passage →

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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 <FI>is<Fi> the untimely birth.'