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Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him

Job 5:26

In 11 translations

BSB
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
KJV
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.cometh in: Heb. ascendeth
WEB
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
ASV
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
LSV
You come in full age to the grave, || As the going up of a stalk in its season.
YLT
Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
DBY
Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
DRC
Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
GNV
Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
JPS
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
LXXE
And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
תָּב֣וֹא בְכֶ֣לַח אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר כַּעֲל֖וֹת גָּדִ֣ישׁ בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐλεύσῃ δὲ ἐν τάφῳ ὥσπερ σῖτος ὥριμος κατὰ καιρὸν θεριζόμενος, ἢ ὥσπερ θιμωνία ἅλωνος καθʼ ὥραν συγκομισθεῖσα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 9:11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
  • Job 42:16–17After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, old and full of years.
  • Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
  • Genesis 15:15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
  • Proverbs 10:27The fear of the LORD prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.
  • Genesis 25:8And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.

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