Job 5 · Verse 26

Job 5:26

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 5:26, King James Version

Job 5:26 in other translations

BSBYou will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
WEBYou will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
ASVThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
YLTThou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
DARBYThou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
BBEYou will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
WebsterThou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

What does Job 5:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. in a full age--So "full of days" (Job 42:17; Ge 35:29). Not mere length of years, but ripeness for death, one's inward and outward full development not being prematurely cut short, is denoted (Is 65:22). Thou shalt come--not literally, but expressing willingness to die. Eliphaz speaks from the Old Testament point of view, which made full years a reward of the righteous (Psa 91:16; Ex 20:12), and premature death the lot of the wicked (Psa 55:23). The righteous are immortal till their work is done. To keep them longer would be to render them less fit to die. God takes them at their best (Is 57:1). The good are compared to wheat (Mt 13:30). cometh in--literally, "ascends." The corn is lifted up off the earth and carried home; so the good man "is raised into the heap of sheaves" [Umbreit].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave - Thou shalt not die before thy time; thou shalt depart from life like a full-fed guest; happy in what thou hast known, and in what thou hast enjoyed. Like as a shock of corn - Thou shalt completely run through the round of the spring, summer, autumn, and winter of life; and thou shalt be buried like a wholesome seed in the earth; from which thou shalt again rise up into an eternal spring!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 5:17-27

Eliphaz gives to Job a word of caution and exhortation: Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. Call it a chastening, which comes from the Father's love, and is for the child's good; and notice it as a messenger from Heaven. Eliphaz also encourages Job to submit to his condition. A good man is happy though he be afflicted, for he has not lost his enjoyment of God, nor his title to heaven; nay, he is happy…

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Job 5:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תָּב֣וֹאta.Vo'you will goH935
בְכֶ֣לַחve.Khe.lachin full strengthH3624
אֱלֵי\־'e.lei-toH413
קָ֑בֶרKa.ver[the] graveH6913
כַּעֲל֖וֹתka.'a.Lotas goes upH5927
גָּדִ֣ישׁga.Disha heap of sheavesH1430
בְּעִתּֽוֹ\׃be.'i.Toat appropriate time itsH6256

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 5:26

  • Job 42:16-17

    After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.

  • Proverbs 9:11

    For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

  • Psalms 91:16

    With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

  • Genesis 15:15

    And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

  • Proverbs 10:27

    The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

  • Genesis 25:8

    Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
in a full age.
42:16,17; Ge 15:15; 25:8; Ps 91:16; Pr 9:11; 10:27
cometh. Heb. ascendeth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 5:25

    Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

  • Job 5:26

    Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

  • Job 5:27

    Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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Job 5:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y vendrás en la vejez á la sepultura, como el montón de trigo que se coge á su tiempo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu entreras au sépulcre en bonne vieillesse, comme on enlève le tas de gerbes en sa saison.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du wirst in Rüstigkeit in das Grab kommen, wie der Garbenhaufen eingebracht wird zu seiner Zeit. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum, sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.