Genesis 47:9
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.
At one hundred and thirty years old Jacob stands before Pharaoh and blesses him, and Pharaoh bows to receive the blessing. He is unawed by royal pomp and magnificence because amid nature he has communed with a mightier monarch, so he blesses Pharaoh in conscious superiority. After painful struggle and crippling, his weakness has become part of his victory of faith, making him a man who can bless a king though Pharaoh is heir to a royal line.
He calls the one hundred and thirty years of his life a pilgrimage. By calling his days few and evil and not attaining to his fathers, he means his life has been marked by trouble and perplexity, not smooth or peaceful, and has been shorter than the lives of his fathers and forefathers. The trouble includes the jealousy of his wives bringing a long train of evils and the sinful course and grief caused by some of his children making his life very bitter.
His last years are more peaceful after his sons turn from their evil ways and reform. The joyful reunion with Joseph restored to him brings such relief that he says he can now die, yet he lives seventeen more peaceful years in Goshen surrounded by every comfort, passing gently and calmly toward the grave.