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The Book of Job, Chapter 5, Verse 26

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Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
King James Version
Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
New English Translation
You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
World English Bible
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
27
Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
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But Job answered and said,
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Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
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For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
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The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
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Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
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Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!