Job 5:26

Modern

You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

Traditional

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

Literal

You shall come in strength to the grave, like the lifting of a sheaf in its time.

Latin

Ingredieris in abundantia sepulchrum, sicut infertur acervus tritici in tempore suo.

Hebrew

English

You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

Six calamities … in seven: This formula for wise sayings suggests a condition of completion (compare Proverbs 30:15–31).
This list reflects the blessings and curses of the covenant God gave to Moses (Leviticus 26; Deuteronomy 28).
Eliphaz believed that people in a right relationship with God would avoid:

Famine, meaning starving. (Job 5:20, 22; see Leviticus 26:4–5, 10; Deuteronomy 28:4–6, 8, 11–12).
Battle and its destruction (Job 5:20; 5:21, 22; see Leviticus 26:6–8; Deuteronomy 28:7, 48).
Scourge of the tongue, or words spoken against them (slander).
They would even be at peace with wild animals and the stones of the field (Job 5:23; see Leviticus 26:6). This peace might mean productive fields instead of rocky ones (2 Kings 3:19, 25; Matthew 13:5). Or it might symbolize broader harmony with creation (see Psalm 91:11–12).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 42:16–17
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.
Psalm 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.