Job 29:18
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Berean Standard Bible
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 shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Jeremiah 49:16The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
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 →