Job 5:26
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
In Context
25You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.
Cross References
Genesis 15:15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.
Exodus 23:26All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.
Job 42:16And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
Psalms 91:16With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:18-27
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:… Read the whole commentary →