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17 Happy the one whom God reproves!
    The Almighty’s[a] discipline do not reject.
18 For he wounds, but he binds up;(A)
    he strikes, but his hands give healing.
19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you,
    and at the seventh[b] no evil shall touch you.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:17 Almighty: standard translation of Heb. Shaddai.
  2. 5:19 Six…the seventh: proverbial expression for any large number; cf. Prv 24:16; Lk 17:4.