Job 5:26
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
BSB
ASV
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
KJV
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in fulness, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. For what is denoted by the name of the grave, saving a life of contemplation? which as it were buries us, dead to this world, in that it hides us in the interior world away from all earthly desires. For they being dead to the exterior life, were also buried by contemplation, to whom Paul said, For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
1834–1892
WE DO NOT BELIEVE all that Job’s friends said. They spoke very often as uninspired men, for we find them saying many things that are not true; and if we read the book of Job through, we might say with regard to them, “miserable comforters are ye all,” for they did not speak concerning God’s servant, Job, the thing that was right.
Eliphaz speaks from the Old Testament point of view, which made full years a reward of the righteous (Ps 91:16; Ex 20:12), and premature death the lot of the wicked (Ps 55:23). The righteous are immortal till their work is done.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
leads to
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails…
Through
Proverbs 9:11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
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The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
so that you and your children and grandchildren may fear the LORD your God all the days of your lives by keeping all His statutes and commandments that I give you, and so that…
Through
Proverbs 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
leads to
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.