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> Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly awa
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
> Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
How old is this proverb?
- hprotagonist 7y agoyoungest is within a 500 year window around the date of the composition of the Psalms (it's psalm 90) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Origins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Origins