Job 29:18

Job chapter 29 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

Context

v.17And I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

v.18This passage

v.19My root is spread out to the waters, And the dew lieth all night upon my branch:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 42:16

    And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

  • Obadiah 1:4

    Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.

  • Job 5:26

    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

  • Habakkuk 2:9

    Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

  • Jeremiah 49:16

    As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, 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 Jehovah.

  • Genesis 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.