Of my pilgrimage] That is, variable abode, or sojourning; such is the life and condition of all the faithfull in this world, who account themselves as Pilgrims, and strangers here, 1 Chro. 29. 15. Psalms 39:12. and Psalms 119:19. Hebrews 11:13. and heaven to be their home, (which is meant by the Apostle, Hebrews 13:14.) to which they are travelling every day: yet Jacobs condition was a pilgrimage in respect of frequent changing of his dwelling, as from Canaan to Mesopotamia, Chap. 28. 5. from Mesopotamia to Canaan againe, Chap. 31. vers. 17, 18. and in Canaan from Succoth to Sechem, Chap. 33. 18. from Sechem to Bethel, Chap. 35. 6. from Bethel to Ephrath, vers. 16. from Ephrath to Hebron, vers. 27. from Hebron to Egypt, Chap. 46. which must be remembred by such as by crosses are occasioned to shift from place to place, wherein they may take comfort, if their affections be as like unto the Patriarch Jacobs, as their condition; since God dealeth none otherwise with them, then with such as he dearly loveth. An hundred and thirty yeares] By a Chronologicall comparing of places, not onely the age of Jacob in some remarkable passages of his life is to be observed, but the ages likewise of his children; Jacob when he was brought before Pharaoh was an hundred and thirty yeares old, that being the third year (though not compleat) of the famine, Cha. 45. 6. Joseph was then betwixt thirty nine, and forty yeares old, for seven yeares before the famine began, he was thirty yeares old, Genesis 41:46. so that he was borne the 91. yeare of Jacobs age, and the fourteenth yeare of his service under Laban, which began in the seventy seventh yeare of his age, and Jacob now being an hundred and thirty yeares old, Joseph about nine and thirty, Reuben was about six and forty, &c. few and evill] (Job 14:1.) Few, in comparison of many of his fore-fathers; evill in respect of his manifold crosses, which some reckon to seven, some to ten. years of the life of my fathers] For his father Isaac lived to an hundred eightie yeares of age, Chap. 35. 28. his grandfather Abraham to one hundred seventy five, Chap. 25. 7.