Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
in a full age—So "full of days" (Job 42:17; Genesis 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 (Isaiah 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 (Psalms 91:16; Exodus 20:12), and premature death the lot of the wicked (Psalms 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 (Isaiah 57:1). The good are compared to wheat (Matthew 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].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 5:26:
Exodus 22:6
Job 24:24
Job 30:2
Job 42:17
Ecclesiastes 12:6
Jeremiah 6:11
Ephesians 6:3
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