Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 5:27

27. And all the days of Methuselah, were nine hundred sixty and nine years , and he died .

The longest time that any man lived. But it is observable that neither his nor any of the Patriarchs lives reached to a thousand years, which number hath some shadow of perfection.

But a little before the Flood came, being taken away from the evil to come.