72 Bible Verses About Old Age

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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:

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

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

Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

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

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

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 one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

From thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shalt thou number them; all that enter in to perform the service, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.

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

And Bath–sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth–lehem–judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

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

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

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

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

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.

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

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

And Aaron was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.

And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city, to mourn and to bury him.

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

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.

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

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

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

Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.