Then I thought, ‘I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.
The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.
With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
And after this Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. And Job died, an old man, and full of days.
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
But you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!”
And Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea, until he ceased to measure it, for it could not be measured.
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