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17 “You are fortunate when God corrects you.
    So don’t complain when God All-Powerful punishes you.
18 God might injure you, but he will bandage those wounds.
    He might hurt you, but his hands also heal.
19 He will save you again and again.
    No evil will harm you.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:19 Literally, “In six troubles, he will rescue you, and in seven, evil will not touch you.”

17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;(A)
    so do not despise the discipline(B) of the Almighty.[a](C)
18 For he wounds, but he also binds up;(D)
    he injures, but his hands also heal.(E)
19 From six calamities he will rescue(F) you;
    in seven no harm will touch you.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:17 Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Job