Job 5:26
You come in full age to the grave, || As the going up of a stalk in its season.
Literal Standard 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
25And have known that your seed [is] numerous, || And your offspring as the herb of the earth;
27Behold, this—we searched it out—it [is] right, listen; And you, know for yourself!”
Cross References
Genesis 15:15and you come to your fathers in peace; you are buried in a good old age;
Exodus 23:26there is not a miscarrying and barren one in your land; I fulfill the number of your days.
Job 42:16And Job lives after this one hundred and forty years, and sees his sons, and his sons’ sons, four generations;
Psalms 91:16I satisfy him with [the] length of [his] days, || And I cause him to look on My salvation!
Proverbs 10:27The fear of YHWH adds days, || And the years of the wicked are 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 →