Job 29:18

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 5:26 : 26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
  • Job 42:16-17 : 16 After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations. 17 So Job died, being old and full of days. BOOK I
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." 7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
  • Ps 91:16 : 16 I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation." A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
  • Gen 32:12 : 12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
  • Gen 41:49 : 49 Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.
  • Jer 22:23 : 23 Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
  • Jer 49:16 : 16 As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
  • Obad 1:4 : 4 Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
  • Hab 2:9 : 9 Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

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