It is only after the age of twenty that a person is considered responsible in the Heavenly Court. Since the average lifespan is seventy years, that leaves an average of fifty years in which we are fully responsible for all that we do. It is only during these fifty years that our thoughts are examined by the Heavenly Court. It is only during these fifty years, when our intellect is considered completely formed, that we begin to count the years of our life; the years that will determine our final judgment.

It is for this reason that the verse stresses, “count for yourself,” if you count your years for yourself, to bring good and pleasure; to use every day of your life for good things, spiritual things; only then will you have the seven count things of seven years of peace and blessing.