Job 29:18

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; 1 I shall live a long while. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; 1 I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth. 1

19My root was spread out by the water, 1 And the dew would lodge on my crop. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered very much corn as the sand of the sea, until it could not be numbered, for there was no number of it.

Job 42:16And Job lived after his affliction a hundred and seventy years: 1 And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: 1 And Job saw his sons and his sons’ sons, the fourth generation. 1

Psalms 91:16that the Lord my God is righteous, 1 And there is no iniquity in him.

Jeremiah 49:16If ye set your face toward Egypt, and go in there to dwell; then it shall be, that the sword which ye fear shall find you in the land of Egypt, and the famine to which ye have regard, shall overtake you, coming after you in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.

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 →

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