Genesis 5:4-20

And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

In passing hastily over so many verses, and which contains so many ages, in the lives of the patriarchs, we have reason to be humbled in the reflection, and to feel the full force of the prophet's words, All flesh is grass. But it is worthy observation, at the same time, how express the Holy Ghost is, in so particularly enumerating the holy seed, while that of the ungodly is so shortly noticed, and so speedily ended. See Genesis 4:18. So true is that scripture, Proverbs 10:7