Job 29:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָ֭אֹמַר עִם־קִנִּ֣י אֶגְוָ֑ע וְ֝כַח֗וֹל אַרְבֶּ֥ה יָמִֽים

Transliteration

wā-ʾōmar ʿim-qinnî ʾegwāʿ wə-ka-ḥôl ʾarbeh yāmîm

Grammar Details

• *wā-ʾōmar*: conjunction + Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - and I said
• *ʿim-qinnî*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - with my nest
• *ʾegwāʿ*: Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will expire/die
• *wə-ka-ḥôl*: conjunction + preposition + noun, masculine singular - and like sand
• *ʾarbeh*: Hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will multiply
• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine plural - days

Word Meanings

• *qinnî*: my nest/home
• *ʾegwāʿ*: I will expire/die/breathe my last
• *ḥôl*: sand/phoenix (interpretational variant)
• *ʾarbeh*: I will multiply/increase
• *yāmîm*: days/lifespan

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:26 : 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
• Job 42:16-17 : 16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, [even] four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
• Ps 30:6-7 : 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. 7 Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
• Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation.
• Gen 32:12 : 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.
• Gen 41:49 : 49 And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.
• Jer 22:23 : 23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
• Jer 49:16 : 16 As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, 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 Jehovah.
• Obad 1:4 : 4 Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.
• Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to him that getteth an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!