he calls his days but "few", in comparison of the long lives of the patriarchs in former times, and especially in comparison of the days of eternity: and "evil", because of the many afflictions he had met with; as from Esau, from whose face he was obliged to flee lest he should kill him, Ge 27:41; and in Laban's house, where he served for a wife fourteen years, and endured great hardships, Ge 31:41; and at Shechem, where his daughter was ravished, Ge 34:2, and his sons made that slaughter of the Shechemites, Ge 34:25, which he feared would cause his name to stink, Ge 34:30; and at Ephrath, where he buried his beloved Rachel, Ge 35:16; and at Hebron, where his sons brought him such an account as if they believed his beloved son Joseph was destroyed by a wild beast, Ge 37:32;and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage; his grandfather Abraham lived to be one hundred amnd seventy five years of age, Ge 25:7, and his father Isaac lived to the age of one hundred and eighty, Ge 35:28.
Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. p. 21. p.