Job 5:26
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
27Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
Cross References
Genesis 15:15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Exodus 23:26No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfil the number of your days.
Job 42:16After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
Psalms 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs days, but 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 →