And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
The days ... Though 130 years old, he reckons by days (cf. Psalms 90:12), which he calls few, as they appeared in the retrospect, and evil, because his life had been one almost unbroken series of troubles. The answer is remarkable, considering the comparative darkness of the patriarchal age (cf. 2 Timothy 1:10).