Job 5:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

Job 5:26 —

Old words in this verse

corn: — grain, such as wheat or barley.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 42:16-17
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. …
Proverbs 9:11
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Genesis 15:15
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Age, Old Aged Antediluvians Atheism Attributes of God Believer Children of God

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-27)

Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself to them. Observe, I. The seasonable word of caution and exhortation that he gives him (Job 5:17): “ Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Call it a chastening, which comes…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. in a full age--So “full of days” (Job 42:17; Ge 35:29). Not mere length of years, but ripeness for death, one’s inward and outward full development not being prematurely cut short, is denoted (Is 65:22). Thou shalt come--not literally, but expressing willingness to die. Eliphaz speaks from the Old Testament point of view, which made full years a reward of the righteous (Psa 91:16; Ex 20:12), a…