Job 29:18
And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.
19My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.
Job 42:16And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.
Psalms 91:16I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.
Jeremiah 49:16Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill : but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him that gathereth together an evil covetousness to his house, that his nest may be on high, and thinketh he may be delivered out of 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 →