Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall 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:

So I thought: I will die in my own nest and 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.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons,[ even] four generations.So Job died,[ being] old and full of days.

Thou shalt come to[ thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face,[ and] I was troubled.

And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Thy terribleness hath deceived thee,[ and] the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for[ it was] without number.

Though thou exalt[ thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.