Old Age
The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if
by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is]
their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and
we fly away....
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They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be
fat and flourishing;...
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If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so
that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled
with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an
untimely birth [is] better than he....
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Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not;
until I have shewed thy strength unto [this] generation, [and]
thy power to every one [that] is to come....
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And [even] to [your] old age I [am] he; and [even] to hoar
hairs will I carry [you]: I have made, and I will bear; even I
will carry, and will deliver [you]....
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And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and
honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead....
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With the ancient [is] wisdom; and in length of days
understanding....
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Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my
strength faileth....
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General scriptures concerning
Ge 15:15; 47:9; De 34:7; 2Sa 19:34-37; 1Ch 29:28; Job
5:26;
11:17; 12:12; 32:4-9; 42:17; Ps 71:9,18; 90:10; 92:14;
148:12,13; Pr 16:31; Ec 6:3,6; 12:1-7; Isa 46:4; Lu
2:37;
Tit 2:2,3; Phm 1:9...
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The reward of filial obedience, according to the fifth
commandment; remarkably illustrated in the great permanence
of the Chinese empire; wherein regard for parents and
ancestors is so great that it has degenerated into
superstition. Patriarchal times and patriarchal governments
have most maintained respect for the old. The Egyptians
followed...
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