Job 5:26

Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

27Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age.

Exodus 23:26There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.

Job 42:16And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, and he died an old man, and full of days.

Psalms 91:16I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Proverbs 10:27The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall 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 →

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