Job 5:21
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.
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In Context
20During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.
22In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.
Cross References
Psalms 57:4Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
Proverbs 12:18He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.
Jeremiah 18:18And they said: “Come, and let us devise a plan against Jeremiah. For the law will not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor a sermon from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us pay no attention to any of his words.”
Matthew Henry on Job 5:18-27
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:… Read the whole commentary →