Job 5:26

26. Like as a shock of corn cometh Literally, Like the going up of a heap of sheaves. The threshing-floor was on some open and elevated spot, that there might be a free circulation of the air, and the grain be more easily winnowed. As the carts, crowned with the ripened grain, were driven up the ascent, a sense of triumph must have filled the heart of the husbandman. While the paths of earthly glory “lead but to the grave,” the course of the man of God, even in death, is an ascension, a “going up.” Like sheaves from the harvest-field, the good are gathered together at last. Thus Sandys:

Thou, full of days, like weighty sheaves of corn

In season reaped, shalt to thy grave be borne.