Job 29:18 (WEB)
Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.
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“For it makes itself a coffin of frankincense and myrrh and other spices, and entering into this when its years are fulfilled, it evidently dies and moulders away.” — editor's note: Ovid, Met. xv. 405: “Fertque pius cunasque suas patriumque sepulcrum.” See the Commentaries on Job xxix. 18: I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my…
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