26. in a full age--So "full of days"
(Job 42:17;
Ge 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.
Eliphaz speaks from the Old Testament point of view, which made full
years a reward of the righteous
(Ps 91:16;
Ex 20:12),
and premature death the lot of the wicked
(Ps 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
(Isa 57:1).
The good are compared to wheat
(Mt 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].
JFB.
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