You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself to them. Observe, I. The seasonable word of caution and exhortation that he gives him (Job 5:17): "Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Commenting on Job 5:17-27
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,.... Or, "go into thy grave" (o), which is represented as a house to enter into and dwell in; and so the wise man calls it man's long home, and Job his house, and which is appointed for all living, Ecc 12:5; for all men must die, and so come to the grave, good men as...
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.