Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Updated King James 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 brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
Cross References
Genesis 41:49And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Job 42:16After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Psalms 91:16With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Jeremiah 49:16Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of yours heart, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from thence, says the LORD.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him that covers an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power 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 →