Job 29:18

_THEN I SAID, I SHALL DIE IN MY NEST, AND I SHALL MULTIPLY MY DAYS AS THE SAND._ I said - in my heart (Psalms 30:6). IN - rather, 'with my nest:' as the second clause refers to long life. Instead of my family dying before me, as now, I IN - rather, 'with my nest:' as the second clause refers to long life. Instead of my family dying before me, as now, I shall live so long as to die with them: proverbial for long life. Job did realize his hope (Job 42:16). However, in the bosom of my family gives a good sense. Numbers 24:21; Obadiah 1:4, use "nest" for a secure dwelling. SAND - ...

18-25 Being thus honoured and useful, Job had hoped to die in peace and honour, in a good old age. If such an expectation arise from lively faith in the providence and promise of God, it is well; but if from conceit of our own wisdom, and dependence on changeable, earthly things, it is ill grounded, and turns to sin. Every one that has the spirit of wisdom, has not the spirit of government; but Job had both. Yet he had the tenderness of a comforter. This he thought upon with pleasure, when he was himself a mourner. Our Lord Jesus is a King who hates iniquity, and upon whom the blessing of a world ready to perish comes. To Him let us give ear....

Verse Job 29:18. _I SHALL DIE IN MY NEST_] As I endeavoured to live _soberly_ and _temperately, fearing God_, and _departing from evil_, endeavouring _to promote the welfare of all around me_, it was natural for me to conclude that I should live long, be very prosperous, and see my posterity multiply as the sands on the seashore....

THEN I SAID - So prosperous was I, and so permanent seemed my sources of happiness. I saw no reason why all this should not continue, and why the same respect and honor should not attend me to the grave. I SHALL DIE IN MY NEST - I shall remain where I am, and in my present comforts, while I live. I shall then die surrounded by my family and friends, and encompassed with honors. A “nest” is an image of quietness, harmlessness, and comfort. So Spenser speaks of a nest: Fayre bosome! fraught with virtue’s richest tresure, The neast of love, the lodging of delight, The bowre of bliss, the paradise of pleasure. _Sonnet LXXVI_ The image her

EXPOSITION JOB 29:1 From these deep musings upon the nature of true wisdom, and the contrast between the ingenuity and cleverness of man and the infinite knowledge of God, Job turns to another contrast, which he pursues through two chapters (Job 29:1; Job 30:1.)—the contrast between what he was and what he is—between his condition in the period of his prosperity and that to which he has been reduced by his afflictions. The present chapter is concerned only with the former period; and gives a graphic description of the life led, in Job's time and country, by a great chieftain, the head of a tribe, not of mere nomads, but of perseus who had attained to a considerable amount of civilization. The picture i

THEN I SAID, I SHALL DIE IN MY NEST,.... Job, amidst all his prosperity, knew he should die, death and the grave being appointed for all men; and he often thought of it, and of the manner of it; but he concluded that death was as yet some distance from him, as appears from the following clause; and that, when the time was come, he should not die on the ground, but in the city in which he lived m, in his house, and on his bed; that he should die with all his children about him, like a bird in its nest full of young; whereas now he was stripped of them all, and likely to die childless; that he should die amidst all his outward enjoyments, in an affluence of good things, in honour, credit, and esteem among men; whereas now he was deprived of all his substance, and had in contempt by friends and foes; and that he should die in great tranquillity of mind and peace of soul, in the enjoyment of...

CHAPTER 29 _ 1. His past prosperity and honors (Job 29:1)_ 2. The good works he did (Job 29:11) Job 29:1. The words spoken by Job were wholesome words, showing that his mind was moving in another channel, but now he reverts to the old complaint in self-occupation, self-pity and self-vindication. What a horrible thing this old self? And before the sun can scatter his dark night, that self must be laid into the dust of self-abhorrence. And so we hear him review the past. Some 20 times he says “I” in this chapter. It reminds one of the man in Romans 7:1 with his “I.” Retrospect is good if it is done with praise and in humility. Not onc

JOB 29. JOB'S FORMER HAPPY DAYS. Job 29:1. Job longs that he might once again live as of old under God's favour. In Job 29:4 secret means intimacy (_cf._ Psalms 25:14). JOB 29:7. Job describes the reverence done to him by not only the young, but even the aged and the honourable. The gate of the city is the place of assembly, the counsel-house. Job lives on his country estate, but goes into the city to give counsel. JOB 29:21 should probably now follow (Budde, Peake). These verses continue the subject of...

DIE IN MY NEST. The Septuagint reads "grow old as. palm trunk". AS THE SAND.. note in Codices (No.. in King's Lib., British Museum) states that the Western School points this to mean "as. phoenix". The Vulgate reads "as. palm"....

_in my nest_ i. e. surrounded by those belonging to him; he should die before them, not they before him, and in the midst of his possessions. _my days as the sand Sand_is the usual rendering of the word occurring here an image of countless number. Most modern writers translate _as the Phœnix_, in accordance with Jewish tradition. The Sept. renders _as the branch of the palm_(φοίνικος). The Heb. word however can hardly have been translated _palm_, a meaning which does not belong to it, and the present Sept. text may have arisen from a misunderstanding of its original reading, _like the Phœnix_. The word "nest" in the first clause favours this translation. This bird was fabled to live 500 years, and to consume himself and his nest with fire, only to arise anew to life out of the ashes. Hence the name became a proverb, expressing the highest duration of life, φοίνικος ἔ τη βιο ῦ ν, to live...