Ayub 5:26

5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, ¹ 

As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

Ayub 29:7

29:7 When I went out to the city gate

and secured my seat in the public square, ² 

Ayub 32:7

32:7 I said to myself, ‘Age ³  should speak, ⁴ 

and length of years ⁵  should make wisdom known.’

[5:26]  ¹ tn The word translated “in a full age” has been given an array of meanings: “health; integrity”; “like a new blade of corn”; “in your strength [or vigor].” The numerical value of the letters in the word בְכֶלָח (bÿkhelakh, “in old age”) was 2, 20, 30, and 8, or 60. This led some of the commentators to say that at 60 one would enter the ripe old age (E. Dhorme, Job, 73).

[29:7]  ² sn In the public square. The area referred to here should not be thought of in terms of modern western dimensions. The wide space, plaza, or public square mentioned here is the open area in the gate complex where legal and business matters were conducted. The area could be as small as a few hundred square feet.

[32:7]  ³ tn Heb “days.”

[32:7]  ⁴ tn The imperfect here is to be classified as an obligatory imperfect.

[32:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “abundance of years.”