Bible Strands
Job 5:26
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Zophar addresses Job in his first discourse, offering a promise of future stability after detailing present affliction.
The words — תָּב֣וֹא (ta.Vo') = you will go and גָּדִ֣ישׁ (ga.Dish) = a heap of sheaves. The text literally describes the movement toward the grave as a harvested grain pile brought in at its proper time.
The thread — The promise of prolonged life and generational blessing reappears in Job 42:16, Proverbs 9:11, and Psalms 91:16.
Why it lands — The verse asks the reader to accept that faithful endurance culminates in a complete, unbroken end rather than premature loss, and to let that concrete outcome ground present perseverance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Cross-references
- Job 42:16 After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Proverbs 9:11 For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
- Psalms 91:16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
- Genesis 15:15 You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
- Proverbs 10:27 The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
- Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.