Job 5:18
For He pains, and He binds up, || He strikes, and His hands heal.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
In Context
19In six distresses He delivers you, || And in seven evil does not strike on you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39See, now, that I [am] He, || And there is no god besides Me; I put to death and I keep alive; I have struck and I heal; And there is not a deliverer from My hand,
Psalms 147:3Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, || And is binding up their griefs.
Isaiah 30:26And the light of the moon has been as the light of the sun, || And the light of the sun is sevenfold, || As the light of seven days, || In the day of YHWH’s binding up the breach of His people, || When He heals the stroke of its wound.
Hosea 6:1“Come, and we turn back to YHWH, || For He has torn, and He heals us, || He strikes, and He binds us up.
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 →