Job 5:27
Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
World English Bible Updated
In The King James Version
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
In Context
26You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:13to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes, which I command you today for your good?
Job 12:2“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Psalms 111:2The LORD’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.
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 →