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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.
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.
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
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Context Readings
Job's Final Defense
17 I brake the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the spoil out of their teeth. 18 "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. 19 For my root was spread out by the water's side, and the dew lay upon my corn.
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Cross References
Genesis 32:12
Thou saidest that thou wouldest surely do me good, and wouldest make my seed as the sand of the sea which can not be numbered for multitude."
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph laid up corn in store, like unto the sand of the sea in multitude out of measure, until he left numbering: For it was without number.
Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.
Job 42:16-17
After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.
Psalm 30:6-7
And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong.
Psalm 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Jeremiah 22:23
thou that dwellest upon Lebanon, and makest thy nest in the Cedar's trees. O how great shall thy mourning be, when thy sorrows come upon thee, as a woman travailing with child?
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.
Obadiah 1:4
But though thou wentest up as high as the Eagle, and madest thy nest above among the stars: yet would I pluck thee down from thence.
Habakkuk 2:9
Woe unto him, that covetously gathereth evil gotten goods into his house: that he may set his nest on high, to escape from the power of misfortune.