Job 29:18

Translations

Modern

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Traditional

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Literal

So I said, ‘In my nest I will die, I will multiply my days as the sand.

Latin

Dicebamque: In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.

Original

Hebrew

English

So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Notes

Job 29:18

and multiply my days as the sand (literally after I have counted my days like sand): Job believed the length of his years showed God's blessing. This was similar to the numerous people descended from Abraham or the abundance of supplies Joseph had in Egypt (Genesis 15:5; 32:12; Genesis 41:49).

Job 29:1–31:40

Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Psalm 30:6–7
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Psalm 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Job 42:16–17
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Jeremiah 49:16
The 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 1:4
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Genesis 32:12
But 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.’”
Job 5:26
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Genesis 41:49
So 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.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”

Glossary

Book of Job

Topics

Confidence: False Sciences: Arithmetic Security: False: from the Evils of Sin; Promises Peace and a Long Life

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