a few years.

Job 14:5, 14
Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, . . .

whence

Job 7:9, 10
As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol will never rise again. . . .

Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Ecclesiastes 12:5
when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels--for then man goes to his eternal home, and mourners walk the streets.