Job 29:18 · KJV
“Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply {my} days as the sand.”
— Job 29:18
And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. {the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}
My root {was} spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. {spread...: Heb. opened}
Job 29 — Context
I {was} a father to the poor: and the cause {which} I knew not I searched out.
17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth. {the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth, or, the grinders} {plucked: Heb. cast}
18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply {my} days as the sand.
19My root {was} spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch. {spread...: Heb. opened}
20My glory {was} fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand. {fresh: Heb. new} {renewed: Heb. changed}
Cross References
Psalms 30:6-7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Job 42:16-17
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, {even} four generations.
Genesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to {thy} grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. {cometh in: Heb. ascendeth}
Jeremiah 49:16
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, {and} the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. {long...: Heb. length of days}
Obadiah 1:4
Though thou exalt {thyself} as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! {inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress}