Job 29:18
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 29 connects to 10 cross-references. Job's final speech begins with a nostalgic monologue recalling his former prosperity: when God watched over him, his children surrounded him, and his counsel was sought at the city gate. He was like rain to the dry ground, a father …
Andere Übersetzungen
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
Querverweise
So Job died, being old and full of days.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his …
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the …
O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon …
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that …
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without …
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which …
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was …