Job 29:18

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

Bible in Basic English

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

17By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

19My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

Read all of Job 29

Cross References

Genesis 41:49So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

Job 42:16And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

Psalms 91:16With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

Jeremiah 49:16... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

Habakkuk 2:9A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Job 29:18