Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
16And so cometh to the indigent hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
18For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so doth the Lord thy God chasten thee.
Psalms 118:18Severely hath the Lord chastised me; but unto death hath he not given me up.
Jeremiah 31:18(31:17) I have indeed heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, “Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untamed calf; cause me to return, and I will return; for thou art the Lord my God.
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 →