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Psalm 90:12
“So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”
Psalm 90:12, King James Version (KJV)
“So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
World English Bible (WEB)
Psalm 90 (KJV)
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
- 1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
- 2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
- 3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
- 4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
- 5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- 6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
- 7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
- 8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
- 9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
- 10The 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.
- 11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
- 12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
- 13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
- 14O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
- 15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
- 16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.
- 17And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
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LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
John 9:4
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 3:13–18
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. …
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1769 standardized text (eBible.org eng-kjv). Public domain outside the United Kingdom. Text courtesy of the Crosswire Bible Society and eBible.org. World English Bible Protestant Edition (eBible engwebp, 2026-09-15 snapshot). Public domain. World English Bible is a trademark of eBible.org. Text unmodified; footnotes and formatting omitted. Related verses: OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0), from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.