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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 5:26 - 5:26
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in a full age - So “full of days” (Job 42:17; Gen 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 (Isa 65:22).
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 (Psa 91:16; Exo 20:12), and premature death the lot of the wicked (Psa 55:23). 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 (Isa 57:1). The good are compared to wheat (Mat 13:30).
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].