Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
New American Standard Bible
And I shall 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.
Holman Bible
and multiply my days as the sand.
International Standard Version
"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.
A Conservative Version
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
American Standard Version
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
Amplified
“Then I said, ‘I shall die in my nest,
And I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Bible in Basic English
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Darby Translation
And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
Julia Smith Translation
And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.
King James 2000
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply [my] days.
Modern King James verseion
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.
NET Bible
"Then I thought, 'I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.
New Heart English Bible
Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
Webster
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 shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I say, 'With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 29:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
17 And I shivered the fangs of the perverse, - and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey. 18 Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days: 19 My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 32:12
But, thou thyself, saidst, - I wilt deal well with thee. So will I make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not to be counted, for multitude.
Genesis 41:49
Thus did Joseph heap up corn like the sand of the sea making it exceeding abundant, - until one hath left off reckoning, because it cannot be reckoned.
Job 5:26
Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Job 42:16-17
And Job lived, after this, a hundred and forty years, - and saw his sons and his sons' sons, four generations.
Psalm 30:6-7
But, I, said, in my tranquility, I shall not be shaken to times age-abiding!
Psalm 91:16
With length of days, will I satisfy him, And will show him my salvation.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitress of Lebanon that makest thy nest in the cedars, - How hast thou bemoaned thyself Now that pangs have overtaken thee, Anguish, as of her that giveth birth.
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy monstrous thing, hath deceived thee, The insolence of thy heart, O thou that inhabitest the hidden recesses of the cliff, That boldest fast the height of the hill, - Though thou set high as an eagle, thy nest, From thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh;
Obadiah 1:4
Though thou build high like an eagle, and though, among the stars, thou set thy nest, from thence, will I bring thee down, Declareth Yahweh.
Habakkuk 2:9
Alas! for him who extorteth an extortion of wrong for his own house, - that he may set on high his nest, that he may be delivered from the grasp of calamity.