25 Thou shalt perceive also that thy seed shall be great, and thy posterity as the grass of the earth.

26 Thou shalt go to thy grave in [a]a full age, as a rick of corn cometh in due season into the barn.

27 Lo, [b]thus have we inquired of it, and so it is: hear this and know it for thyself.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:26 Though the children of God have not always this promise performed, yet God doth recompense it otherwise to their advantage.
  2. Job 5:27 We have learned these points by experience, that God punisheth not the innocent, that man cannot compare in justice with him, that the hypocrites shall not long prosper, and that the affliction which man sustaineth, cometh for his own sin.

25 You will know that your children will be many,(A)
    and your descendants like the grass of the earth.(B)
26 You will come to the grave in full vigor,(C)
    like sheaves gathered in season.(D)

27 “We have examined this, and it is true.
    So hear it(E) and apply it to yourself.”(F)

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