Job 29:18

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I said, 'I will die with my nest, and my days will be as numerous 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

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Then I said, 'I will die in my nest, and I will multiply my days as the sand.'

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

• 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:

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Therfore, I thought verely, yt I shulde haue dyed in my nest: & yt my dayes shulde haue bene as many as the sondes of the see.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sand.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Then I sayde, I shall die in my nest: and I shall multiplie my dayes as the sande.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply [my] days as the sand.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I say, `With my nest I expire, And as the sand I multiply days.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

• World English Bible (2000)

  Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Job’s Confidence“Then I thought,‘I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

Referenced Verses

• Job 5:26 : 26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in its season.
• Job 42:16-17 : 16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so Job died, old and full of days.
• Ps 30:6-7 : 6 For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. 7 As for me, I said in my prosperity, 'I will never be shaken.'
• Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation."
• Gen 32:12 : 12 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from Esau, for I am afraid of him. He might come and strike me, the mothers, and the children.
• Gen 41:49 : 49 Joseph stored up grain in such great abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.
• Jer 22:23 : 23 You who live in Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, anguish like that of a woman in labor!
• Jer 49:16 : 16 The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, holding the heights of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
• Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
• Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to the one who gains unjust wealth for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of calamity!