26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. …
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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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 come…
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