Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 5:26

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26. in a full age —So "full of days" ( Job 42:17 ; Genesis 35:29 ). Not mere length of years, but ripeness for death, one's inward and outward full development not being prematurely cut short, is denoted ( Genesis 35:29- : ). Thou shalt come —not literally, but expressing willingness to die. Eliphaz speaks from the Old Testament point of view, which made full years a reward of the righteous ( Psalms 91:16 ; Exodus 20:12 ), and premature death the lot of the wicked ( Exodus 20:12- : ). The righteous are immortal till their work is done. To keep them longer would be to render them less fit to die. God takes them at their best ( Isaiah 57:1 ). The good are compared to wheat ( Isaiah 57:1- : ). cometh in —literally, "ascends." The corn is lifted up off the earth and carried home; so the good man "is raised into the heap of sheaves" [UMBREIT]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-27" class="com-number"

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