Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
18For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5And thou shall consider in thy heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so LORD thy God chastens thee.
Psalms 118:18LORD has chastened me greatly, but he has not given me over to death.
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [saying], Thou have chastised me, and I was chastised as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]. Turn thou me back, and I shall be turned back, for thou are LORD my God.
James 1:12Blessed is a man who endures temptation, because, having become approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →