2 Tawarikh 16:12-14

16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. ¹  Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. ²  16:13 Asa passed away ³  in the forty-first year of his reign. 16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. ⁴  They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. ⁵ 

Mazmur 90:10

90:10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, ⁶ 

or eighty, if one is especially strong. ⁷ 

But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. ⁸ 

Yes, ⁹  they pass quickly ¹⁰  and we fly away. ¹¹ 

[16:12]  ¹ tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”

[16:12]  ² tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the Lord, only the healers.

[16:13]  ³ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”

[16:14]  ⁴ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[16:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”

[90:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “the days of our years, in them [are] seventy years.”

[90:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “or if [there is] strength, eighty years.”

[90:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and their pride [is] destruction and wickedness.” The Hebrew noun רֹהַב (rohav) occurs only here. BDB 923 s.v. assigns the meaning “pride,” deriving the noun from the verbal root רהב (“to act stormily [boisterously, arrogantly]”). Here the “pride” of one’s days (see v. 9) probably refers to one’s most productive years in the prime of life. The words translated “destruction and wickedness” are also paired in Ps 10:7. They also appear in proximity in Pss 7:14 and 55:10. The oppressive and abusive actions of evil men are probably in view (see Job 4:8; 5:6; 15:35; Isa 10:1; 59:4).

[90:10]  ⁹ tn or “for.”

[90:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “it passes quickly.” The subject of the verb is probably “their pride” (see the preceding line). The verb גּוּז (guz) means “to pass” here; it occurs only here and in Num 11:31.

[90:10]  ¹¹ sn We fly away. The psalmist compares life to a bird that quickly flies off (see Job 20:8).