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Job 29:18
Job 29:18 is verse 18 of Job chapter 29, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
King James Version
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
World English Bible
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
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Job 29:16–20 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
18 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.’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 30:6In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
Psalms 30:7O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
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.”
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 you down,” declares the LORD.
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.
Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Job 42:17And so Job died, old and full of years.
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
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.’”
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.