¹⁸ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life, And show him my salvation."

⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

⁷ You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled.

¹⁶ After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.

¹⁷ So Job died, being old and full of days.

²⁶ You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.

¹² You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

⁴ Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

¹⁶ As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

²³ Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

⁴⁹ Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he stopped counting, for it was without number.