Job 29:18
“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Genesis 32:12
And You [Lord] said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and make your descendants as [numerous as] the sand of the sea, which is too great to be counted.’”
Genesis 41:49
Thus Joseph gathered and stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped counting it, for it could not be measured.
Job 5:26
“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.
Job 42:16-17
After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.
Psalm 30:6-7
As for me, in my prosperity I said,
“I shall never be moved.”
Psalm 91:16
“With a long life I will satisfy him
And I will let him see My salvation.”
Jeremiah 22:23
“O inhabitant of [Jerusalem, whose palaces are made from the cedars of] Lebanon,
You who nest in the cedars,
How you will groan and how miserable you will be when pains come on you,
Pain like a woman in childbirth!
Jeremiah 49:16
“As for Your terror,
The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock (Sela also called
Who hold and occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
Obadiah 1:4
“Though you build [your nest] on high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
Habakkuk 2:9
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing]
To set his nest on high,
That he may be rescued from the hand of evil.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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I shall die
Multiply
As the sand
Bible References
I shall die
As for me, in my prosperity I said,
“I shall never be moved.”
“O inhabitant of [Jerusalem, whose palaces are made from the cedars of] Lebanon,
You who nest in the cedars,
How you will groan and how miserable you will be when pains come on you,
Pain like a woman in childbirth!
“As for Your terror,
The pride and arrogance of your heart have deceived you,
O you who live in the clefts of the rock (Sela also called
Who hold and occupy the height of the hill.
Though you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
“Though you build [your nest] on high like the eagle,
Though you set your nest among the stars,
I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.
“Woe (judgment is coming) to him who obtains wicked gain for his house [and thinks by so doing]
To set his nest on high,
That he may be rescued from the hand of evil.
Multiply
“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.
“With a long life I will satisfy him
And I will let him see My salvation.”