Job 29:18

In 11 translations

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:

LSV

And I say, I expire with my nest, || And I multiply days as the sand.

YLT

And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

DBY

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

DRC

And I said: I shall die in my nest, and as a palm tree shall multiply my days.

GNV

Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.

JPS

Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;

LXXE

And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm-tree; I shall live a long while.

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WLC

וָ֭אֹמַר עִם־קִנִּ֣י אֶגְוָ֑ע וְ֝כַח֗וֹל אַרְבֶּ֥ה יָמִֽים׃

LXX-Br

Εἶπα δὲ, ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχος φοίνικος, πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 30:6–7In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.” O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
• Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
• 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.
• 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.’”
• 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…
• Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
• Job 42:16–17After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, old and full of years.
• Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
• 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.
• 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.”

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