Bible Verses About Old Age

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

So Job died, being old and full of days.

And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:

And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:

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

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more:

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.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.

Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

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.

And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

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

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

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.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

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

And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

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

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

Then 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.

He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.