Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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In Context
16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
18For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
Psalms 118:18The LORD has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Jeremiah 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God.
James 1:12Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been 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 reprove 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 →