Job 5:26 Meaning and Explanation
“Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Eliphaz promises a long and complete life, coming to the grave in ripe old age like grain gathered in its season.
What Does Job 5:26 Mean?
Eliphaz closes his list of blessings with the gift of a full life: the favored one will come to the grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at just the right time. Death itself is pictured not as terror but as a fitting ingathering.
The image is gentle and hopeful, casting a long life completed in peace as a harvest brought home in season. Death, for those who belong to God, is not a brutal cutting-off but a gathering in. The fuller revelation of Scripture deepens this hope, for Christ has so conquered the grave that for His own, to be gathered in is to be welcomed home.
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What does Job 5:26 mean?
Eliphaz promises a long and complete life, coming to the grave in ripe old age like grain gathered in its season.