Job 5:26
24 You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
25 You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
27 Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- KJV
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- WEB
- You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- ASV
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
- DARBY
- Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
- BLB
- You shall come in strength to the grave, like the lifting of a sheaf in its time.
- ÅB
- Du skal i fullmoden alder gå i graven, slik som kornbånd føres inn sin tid.
- OTB
- Du vil komme til graven i en full alder,
Som et kornbånd samlet i sin sesong. - B1930
- Du skal i fullmoden alder gå i graven, likesom kornbånd føres inn sin tid.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 42:16–17
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Read in contextProverbs 9:11
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
Read in contextPsalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
Read in contextGenesis 15:15
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Read in contextProverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
Read in contextGenesis 25:8
And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
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