Job 5:26
You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
27Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.
Cross References
Genesis 15:15But you will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Exodus 23:26There will not be fruitless or barren ones in your land. I will fill up the number of your days.
Job 42:16But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.
Psalms 91:16so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the Lord adds days. And the years of the impious will be shortened.
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 →