Job 5:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh inj in his season. ”

Job 5:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt come to thy grave in full age - That is, thou shalt have long life; thou shalt not be cut down prematurely, nor by any sudden calamity. It is to be remembered that long life was regard...
Job 5:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in (y) a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. (y) Though the children of God have not always carried out this promise, yet God recompenses it otherw...
Job 5:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Eliphaz advises Job to accept the Divine discipline so that God may again show Himself gracious. As for me, instead of being impatient like a fool, I would seek unto God ( cf. Job 1:21 ; Job 2:10...
Job 5:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

grave. Hebrew. keber. See App-35. shock . stack. Hebrew. gadish, . heap of sheaves of corn. cometh in . mounteth up.
Job 5:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 455 THE SECURITY OF GOD’S PEOPLE Job 5:19-27 . He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in w...
Job 5:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - Thou shalt not die before thy time; thou shalt depart from life like a fu...
Job 5:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, &c.— In old age shalt thou come to the sepulchre, as the corn is heaped upon the threshing-floor in its season. Thus Heath, more agreeably to the H...
Job 5:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. In a full age - so full of days (42:17; Genesis 35:29 ). Not mere length of years, but ripeness f...
Job 5:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Eliphaz (concluded) 1-5. Eliphaz warns Job that to show a resentful temper at God's dispensations is folly, and that fools never prosper.
Job 5:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Thou shalt come to thy grave. — There is not improbably a contrast implied here between going into the grave and going up (see the margin) to the barn. The grave in such a case is not the melan...
Job 5:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VII. THE THINGS ELIPHAZ HAD SEEN Job 4:1-21 ; Job 5:1-27 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE ideas of sin and suffering against which the poem of Job was written come now dramatically into view. The belief o...
Job 5:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Benefits of Chastisement Job 5:1-27 In this chapter Eliphaz closes his first speech. He had already suggested that Job's sufferings were the result of some secret sin. It could not be other...
Job 5:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Proceeding, Eliphaz asked Job to whom he would appeal, to which of the holy ones, that is, as against the truth which he had declared, or in defense of himself. In the light of evident guilt, all vex...
Job 5:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(26) Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. Oh! how sweet is it to know that he that...
Job 5:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age ,.... Or, "go into thy grave" o, which is represented as a house to enter into and dwell in; and so the wise man calls it man's long home, and Job his ho...
Job 5:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. Ver. 26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age ] In a good old age, or (as the Hebrew hath it, G...
Job 5:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age: &c. Heath translates it, In old age shalt thou come to the sepulchre, as the corn is heaped upon the thrashing-floor in its season. Thou shalt die...
Job 5:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

FURTHER OBSERVATIONS BY ELIPHAZ (vv.1-27) Eliphaz suggests to Job that he call out to creatures for help, even to holy ones - holy men or angels, - and see if anyone will answer him (v.1). He is...
Job 5:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ...
Job 5:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In a full age; in a mature and old, but vigorous, age, as the word implies. Thou shalt not be cut off by a hand of violence before thy time, as thy sons and other wicked men have been; but shalt di...
Job 5:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ.—CONTINUED I. Application of the Vision ( Job 5:1 ). “Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints (‘holy ones’—probably angels , as...
Job 5:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:1 . To which of the saints wilt thou turn? Men in anguish look every way for help, but how can either angel or departed spirit of the just help us, without a special command from heaven. Men...
Job 5:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age. The death of the Christian I. Death is inevitable. “Thou shalt come.” This remark is very trite, simple, and common. But while this is a truth so wel...
Job 5:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 5:1-18 Eliphaz, having narrated his vision, and rehearsed the words which the spirit spoke in his ear, continues in his own person, first ( Job 5:1-18 ) covertly reproaching...
Job 5:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Eliphaz Admonishes Job to Bear his Trial Patiently
Job 5:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 15:15 ; Genesis 25:8 ; Job 42:16 ; Job 42:17 ; Proverbs 10:27 ; Proverbs 9:11 ; Psalms 91:16
Job 5:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Full age — In a mature and old, but vigorous age, as the word implies. It is a great blessing, to live to a full age, and not to have the number of our years cut short. Much more, to be willing to...

Job 5:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 5:26 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 5:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 5:26 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 5:26 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Job 5:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 5:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 5:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 5:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 5:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 5:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 5:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 5:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 5:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 5:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 5:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 5:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 5:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 5:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 5:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 5:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 5:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 5:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 5:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 5:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 5:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes