⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The ^[a]years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have ^[b]not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

¹⁵ For we are ^[a]sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

⁶ So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

¹³ All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.^(A)