Job 29:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.”
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BSBPD
“So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 29:18 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 32:12But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- 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 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Psalms 30:6In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
- Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
- 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.
- Obadiah 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, 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!
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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