Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
In Context
17And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
19My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lays all night upon my branch.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering, for it was without number.
Job 42:16And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations.
Psalms 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.
Jeremiah 49:16As for thy formidableness, the pride of thy heart has deceived thee, O thou who dwells in the clefts of the rock, who holds the height of the hill. Though thou should make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
Matthew Henry on Job 29:8-18
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street! 8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth. 11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. 13 The… Read the whole commentary →