Job 29:18
And I say, I expire with my nest, || And I multiply days as the sand.
Literal Standard 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 break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, || And from his teeth I cast away prey.
19My root is open to the waters, || And dew lodges on my branch.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49and Joseph gathers grain as sand of the sea, multiplying exceedingly, until he has ceased to number, for there is no number.
Job 42:16And Job lives after this one hundred and forty years, and sees his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations;
Psalms 91:16I satisfy him with [the] length of [his] days, || And I cause him to look on My salvation!
Jeremiah 49:16Your terribleness has lifted you up, || The pride of your heart, || O dweller in clefts of the rock, || Holding the high place of the height, || For you make your nest high as an eagle, || From there I bring you down, || A declaration of YHWH.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe [to] him who is gaining evil gain for his house, || To set his nest on high, || To 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 →