Job 29:18
And I said, “I will die in my little nest, and like a palm tree, I will multiply my days.
Catholic Public Domain 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
17I crushed the jaws of the impious, and I took away prey from his teeth.
19My root has been spread beside the waters, and the dew will remain with my harvest.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure.
Job 42:16But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.
Psalms 91:16so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.
Jeremiah 49:16Your arrogance has deceived you, by the pride of your heart, you who live in the caverns of the rock and who strive to take hold of the height of the hill. But even if you make your nest like that of an eagle, I will pull you down from there, says the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who gathers together an evil greed for his house, so that his nest may be exalted, and thinking that he might free himself 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 →