Well, he almost lived to 70 but not quite but then it was a long time. Oh, he didn't die at 69 it was 969. It must have been, well...
Horrible!
How can a long life be bad? Normally I would say that long life is a great blessing but Methuselah lived in the days before the Flood. He lived in a world that God saw as so bad that the destruction of everything but Noah and his family was the best choice. I might think that for Methuselah, son of Enoch (one of only two people who never saw death because of their righteousness) it was watching everyone around him sink deeper and deeper into depravity.
Also, there is some indication, from his name, that he may have known when he died that judgment would fall. Did this make him wish for death or fight for life? We don't know. What I do know is that it would NOT have been easy to live a righteous life.
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