🌪️WEB · Job 5:17
What does Job 5:17 mean?
"“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty."
— Job 5:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
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