Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
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In Context
16So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
18For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:5You shall also consider in yours heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens you.
Psalms 118:18The LORD has chastened me sore: but he has not given me over unto death.
Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock is not accustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God.
James 1:12Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.
Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke 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 →