So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerou
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers o
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a wom
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was b