Job 5:26

You will live to a ripe old age like a sheaf of grain when it is harvested.

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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 also be sure that you will have many children; your descendants will be like the grass of the earth.

27Look, we've examined it, and it's true! Listen to what I'm saying and apply it to yourself!”

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Cross References

Genesis 15:15But as for you, you will die in peace and be buried, having lived a good long life.

Exodus 23:26No woman will have a miscarriage or be without children. I will make sure you live long lives.

Job 42:16Job lived 140 years after this, seeing his children, and grandchildren, in fact four generations.

Psalms 91:16I will grant them long lives, and show them my salvation.

Proverbs 10:27Honoring the Lord makes your life longer, but the years the wicked live 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 →

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