Job 29:18
16 I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
17 I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
19 My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
20 My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- KJV
- Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- WEB
- Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
- ASV
- Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
- DARBY
- And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
- BLB
- So I said, ‘In my nest I will die, I will multiply [my] days as the sand.
- ÅB
- Jeg tenkte da: I mitt rede skal jeg få dø, og mine dager skal bli tallrike som sand.
- OTB
- Da tenkte jeg, ‘Jeg vil dø i mitt rede,
Og jeg vil mangfoldiggjøre mine dager som sanden. - B1930
- Jeg tenkte da: I mitt rede skal jeg få dø, og mine dager skal bli tallrike som sand.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 30:6–7
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Read in contextObadiah 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.
Read in contextJob 5:26
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.
Read in contextGenesis 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.’”
Read in contextPsalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Read in contextJob 42:16–17
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Read in contextJeremiah 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.”
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