Job 29:18
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
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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
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Read in contextObadiah 1:4
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Read in contextJob 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Read in contextJeremiah 49:16
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Read in contextGenesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Read in contextPsalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Read in contextJob 42:16–17
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
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