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Job 29:18
New Catholic Bible
Job 29:18
New Catholic Bible
18 “Then I thought, ‘I will die in honor
after having multiplied my days like grains of sand,[a]
Footnotes
- Job 29:18 Grains of sand: another possible translation is: “the phoenix”—a symbol of long life. The ancients regarded the phoenix as a bird that lived for centuries, then became consumed in flames, and finally arose from the ashes with new life.