Job 29:18
Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;
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- Job 5:26 : 26 You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
- Job 42:16-17 : 16 And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. 17 And Job came to his end, old and full of days.
- Ps 30:6-7 : 6 When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. 7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.
- Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
- Gen 32:12 : 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.
- Gen 41:49 : 49 So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.
- Jer 22:23 : 23 O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!
- Jer 49:16 : 16 ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.
- Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.
- Hab 2:9 : 9 A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!
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