Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
7 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “years” →
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
If they obey and serve him , they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.