Job 5:21
When the tongue scourges you are hid, || And you are not afraid of destruction, || When it comes.
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In Context
20In famine He has redeemed you from death, || And in battle from the hands of the sword.
22At destruction and at hunger you mock, || And of the beast of the earth, || You are not afraid.
Cross References
Psalms 31:21Blessed [is] YHWH, || For He has made His kindness marvelous || To me in a city of bulwarks.
Psalms 57:4My soul [is] in the midst of lions, || I lie down [among] flames—sons of men, || Their teeth [are] a spear and arrows, || And their tongue a sharp sword.
Proverbs 12:18A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, || And the tongue of the wise is healing.
Jeremiah 18:18And they say, “Come, || And we devise schemes against Jeremiah, || For law does not perish from the priest, || Nor counsel from the wise, || Nor the word from the prophet, || Come, and we strike him with the tongue, || And we do not attend 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 →