Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.
New American Standard Bible
Like the stacking of grain in its season.
King James Version
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Holman Bible
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.
International Standard Version
You'll go to your grave at a ripe old age; like a stack of grain that's harvested at just the right time.
A Conservative Version
Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
Amplified
“You will come to your grave in old age,
Like the stacking of grain [on the threshing floor] in its season.
Bible in Basic English
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt come in old age to thy grave, as the ascending of a heap of sheaves in its time.
King James 2000
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in in its season.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.
Modern King James verseion
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
NET Bible
You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
New Heart English Bible
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Webster
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
World English Bible
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 5:26
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Context Readings
Blessing Comes When God Corrects You
25 Thou shalt see also, that thy seed shall increase, and that thy posterity shall be as the grass upon the earth. 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season. 27 Lo, this we ourselves have proved by experience, and even this it is. Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heed to thyself."
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Genesis 15:15
Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:
Genesis 25:8
and then fell sick and died, in a lusty age - when he had lived enough - and was put unto his people.
Proverbs 9:11
For through me thy days shall be prolonged, and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the LORD maketh a long life; but the years of the ungodly shall be shortened.
Job 42:16-17
After this lived Job forty years, so that he saw his children, and his children's children to the fourth generation.
Psalm 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.