Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand.
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 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.
The Emphasized Bible
Then said I, Like a stem, shall I grow old, yea, as the sand, shall I multiply days:
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 I broke the fangs of the wicked, and plucked the prey out of his teeth. 18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand. 19 My root was open to the waters, and the dew lay all night on my branch.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 32:12
And You said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he quit numbering it; for it was without number.
Job 5:26
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 42:16-17
After this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations.
Psalm 30:6-7
And in my blessedness I said, I shall never be moved.
Psalm 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.
Jeremiah 22:23
O dweller in Lebanon, nested in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come to you, the pain as one giving birth?
Jeremiah 49:16
Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
Obadiah 1:4
Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!