Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 5:26

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

In a mature and old, but vigorous, age, as the word implies. Thou shalt not be cut off by an hand of violence before thy time, as thy sons and other wicked men have been, but shalt die in a good old age, as did Abraham, Gen. 25. 8. and Moses, Deut. 34. 7.

As an heap o[illegible: 1+ letters] stack of corn is brought in, to wit▪ to the barn: Heb. ascendeth or riseth: which word is very proper and usual in this case: for a stack of Corn is said to rise when by the addition of new heaps and handfuls it is raised to an higher pitch: Or, is cut off, as this same word is used Psal. 102. 25. Cut me not off, &c. Heb. Make me not to ascend: And thus it is fitly used both of the Corn, which, when it is cut up, ascends, or is lifted up from the Earth on which it lay, and is advanced into stacks, and high heaps, either in the Barn, or in the Field; and of man, who when he dies, his spirit goeth upward to Heaven, as is implied even there where in the person of an Epicure it is questioned, Eccles. 3. 21.

In harvest when the Corn is ripe.

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