John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten ,.... In the Hebrew text it is, "the days of our years in them are", &c.; F1 בהם "in ipsis", Pagninus, Montanus; "in quibus vivimus", Tigurine version, Vatablus. ; which refers either to the days in which we live, or to the persons of the Israelites in the wilderness, who were instances of this term of life, in whom perhaps it first took place in a general way: before the flood, men lived to a great age; some nine hundred years... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 90:7-11
Moses had, in the Ps. 90:1-6, lamented the frailty of human life in general; the children of men are as a sleep and as the grass. But here he teaches the people of Israel to confess before God that righteous sentence of death which they were under in a special manner, and which by their sins they had brought upon themselves. Their share in the common lot of mortality was not enough, but they are, and must live and die, under peculiar tokens of God's displeasure. Here they speak of themselves:... read more