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Commentary for Job 5:26

תָּב֣וֹא בְכֶ֣לַח אֱלֵי־קָ֑בֶר כַּעֲל֖וֹת גָּדִ֣ישׁ בְּעִתּֽוֹ׃

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

Rashi on Job

You shall come to the grave at a ripe old age Heb. בְכֶלַח. [In other words,] you will be saved from pestilence. As for the word בְכֶלַח: there is no Biblical support to understand its meaning, but according to the context, it can be interpreted as an expression of the completion of the ripening of the grain, when it is completely ripe. Our Rabbis, however, interpret בְכֶלַח as “sixty years,” according to its numerical value.
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Rashi on Job

as the grain stock is taken away As the grain stack is taken off the ground in its time.
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