You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- KJV Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- BSB You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
- NKJV You shall come to the grave at a full age, As a sheaf of grain ripens in its season.
- NASB “You will come to the grave at a ripe age, Like the stacking of grain in its season.
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You will come to your grave in full age, like a sheaf gathered in its season. It promises a long, ripe, well-rounded life ending in peace.
Overview
Eliphaz pictures death not as tragedy but as harvest at the right time, a life full and complete. This is the ideal of a blessed life in the wisdom tradition. While death remains an enemy, the gospel transforms it further, for in Christ even the grave becomes a sowing in hope of resurrection, the final harvest of imperishable life.
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Cross-references · 6
- Prov 9:11For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.
- Job 42:16–17After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
- Ps 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
- Gen 15:15but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
- Prov 10:27The fear of Yahweh prolongs days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
- Gen 25:8Abraham gave up his spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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