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Job Chapter 29 verse 18 Holy Bible

ASV Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
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BBE 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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DARBY Job 29:18

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;
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KJV Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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WBT Job 29:18

Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
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WEB Job 29:18

Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.
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YLT Job 29:18

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Then I said, I shall die in my nest. The metaphor of "nest" for "dwelling-place" occurs in Numbers 24:21; Jeremiah 49:16: Obadiah 1:4; and Habakkuk 2:9. It is also employed by Healed ('Op. et Di.,' 1:301). And I shall multiply my days as the sand. Some translate, "I shall multiply my days as the phoenix," the fabulous bird which was supposed to live for five hundred years (Herod., 2:72), to burn itself on a funeral pile of spices, and then to rise again from its ashes. But the view seems to be a mere rabbinical tradition, and is unsupported by etymology. Khal (חול) means "sand" in Genesis 22:17; Jeremiah 33:22; and elsewhere. It is taken in this sense by Rosenmuller, Schultens, Professor Lee, Canon Cook, and our Revisers.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) I shall die in my nest.--Very touching is this spontaneous expression of his almost unconscious hope when in prosperity. Some have suggested the transposition of these three verses to the end of the chapter. Though this is obviously their natural position in one sense, yet in another it is less natural. The same thing is to be seen in the last four verses of chapter 31. They carry on the previous vindication from Job 31:34, which had been broken by the parenthesis in Job 31:35-37.