So I thought: 'I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
Cross References
Job 29:17I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.
Job 29:19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
Treasury of Scripture
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
I shall die
Psalm 30:6,7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved…
Jeremiah 22:23
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!
Jeremiah 49:16
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.
multiply
Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 42:16,17
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations…
Psalm 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
as the sand
Genesis 32:12
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.
Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
