“ Then I thought,‘ I will die in my own home, my days as numerous as the grains of 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 said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply[ my] days as the sand.

Then I said,‘ I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.And so Job died, old and full of days.

You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

In my self-confidence I said,“ I will never be upended.”O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.

But you said,‘ I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

I will satisfy him with long life, and will let him see my salvation.

The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead. He does this so he can build his nest way up high and escape the clutches of disaster.

The terror you inspire in others and the arrogance of your heart have deceived you. You may make your home in the clefts of the rocks; you may occupy the highest places in the hills. But even if you made your home where the eagles nest, I would bring you down from there,” says the LORD.

You may feel as secure as a bird nesting in the cedars of Lebanon. But oh how you will groan when the pains of judgment come on you. They will be like those of a woman giving birth to a baby.

Joseph stored up a vast amount of grain, like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it because it was impossible to measure.

Even if you were to soar high like an eagle, even if you were to make your nest among the stars, I can bring you down even from there!” says the LORD.