So I thought: I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.

我便说：我必死在家中，必增添我的日子，多如尘沙。

我说：‘我要增添我的日子如尘沙，我必死在自己家中。

我说：‘我要增添我的日子如尘沙，我必死在自己家中。

“我想，‘我必在家中安然离世，我的年日必多如尘沙。

那时我心里想：‘我必在家中安然去世，我必增添我的日子像沙尘那么多。

我便說：我必死在家中，必增添我的日子，多如塵沙。

我說：『我要增添我的日子如塵沙，我必死在自己家中。

我說：『我要增添我的日子如塵沙，我必死在自己家中。

「我想，『我必在家中安然離世，我的年日必多如塵沙。

那時我心裡想：‘我必在家中安然去世，我必增添我的日子像沙塵那麼多。

那時我心裏說：「我必善終於我的巢窩；我必增多我的年日如塵沙；

自謂必終於我巢、增加我日、如沙之多、

我行若此、自謂必享遐齡、若沙之無量、終於正寢。

我自以為必善終於家、必善終於家原文作必終於我巢我之壽命必多如塵沙、我之壽命必多如塵沙或作我必增壽如鳳

“ I thought,‘ I will die in my own house, my days as numerous as the grains of sand.

“ I thought,‘ I’ll die in my own house. The days of my life will be as many as the grains of sand.

Then I thought,‘ I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,

“ I thought,‘ Surely I will die surrounded by my family after a long, good life.

So I thought,“ I will die in my own nest and multiply my days as the sand.

Then I thought,‘ I will die with my family, And I will multiply my days as the sand.

“ Then I said,‘ I shall die in my nest, And multiply my days as the sand.

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

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

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

Then I said,‘ I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.Then Job died, old and full of days.

You will approach the grave in full vigor, as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.

When I was secure, I said,“ I will never be shaken.”Lord, when You showed Your favor, You made me stand like a strong mountain; when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

You have said,‘ I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”

I will satisfy him with a long life and show him My salvation.

Woe to him who dishonestly makes wealth for his house to place his nest on high, to escape from the reach of disaster!

As to the terror you cause, your presumptuous heart has deceived you. You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. This is the Lord’s declaration.

You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come on you, agony like a woman in labor.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance— like the sand of the sea— that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Though you seem to soar like an eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down. This is the Lord’s declaration.