Working Hours of a Man's Life
Joseph Cook. Psalm 104:23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening. Did you ever calculate that the number of working hours in the mature part of life is only 135,000? Rest a moment on that thought. Between twenty-five years, which pass in the early part of life without much fruit, and the seventieth year of life, there are forty-five years of life which we call mature. Now, suppose that a man throw away in every year fifty-two days for Sundays, thirteen days for illness, vacation, and other interruptions; and suppose that for forty-five consecutive years he works 300 days a year — a large average — that would give a man in the mature part of life, 13,500 days. Supposing that a man have health and industry enough to work ten hours in each of these 13,500 days, he will have 185,000 mature working hours. A man who is forty, however, has but 90,000 hours left; a man who is sixty has so few hours left that I don't want to shock you by mentioning their number. (Joseph Cook.) Parallel Verses KJV: Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening. WEB: Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.