a few years
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
whence
Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
Job 7:10
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: