Job 5:26
Good News Translation
Like wheat that ripens till harvest time, you will live to a ripe old age.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.

Contemporary English Version
You will live a very long life, and your body will be strong until the day you die.

New American Bible
You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

in a full age.

Job 42:16,17 And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, . . .

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

Genesis 25:8 And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

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

Proverbs 9:11 If thou be wise, thou shalt be so to thyself: and if a scorner, thou alone shalt bear the evil.

Proverbs 10:27 The expectation of the just is joy: but the hope of the wicked shall perish.

cometh.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth. 26Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.27Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:26
There shall not be one fruitless nor barren in thy land: I will fill the number of thy days.

Job 5:27
Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

Job 42:17
and he died an old man, and full of days.

Isaiah 65:20
There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Job 5:25
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