Job 29:18
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
BSB
ASV
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:
KJV
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
However, in the bosom of my family, gives a good sense (Nu 24:21; Use "nest" for a secure dwelling. sand-- (Ge 22:17; But the Septuagint and Vulgate, and Jewish interpreters, favor the translation, "the phœnix bird." "Nest" in the parallel clause supports the reference to a bird.
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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
leads to
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails…
Through
Obadiah 1:4Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
leads to
Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,