Then I thought,‘ 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.

“ 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 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.

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.

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.

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.’”

With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

“ Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

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.

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.

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.