Job 5:17 | KD | STEP | Job 5:17-21 17 Behold, happy is the man whom Eloah correcteth; So despise not the chastening of the Almighty! 18 For He woundeth, and He also bindeth up; He bruiseth, and His hands make whole. 19 In six troubles He will rescue thee, And in seven no evil shall touch thee. 20 In famine He will redeem thee from death, And in war from the stroke of the sword. 21 When the tongue scourgeth, thou shalt be hidden; And thou shalt not fear destruction when it cometh. The speech of Eliphaz now becomes persuasive as it turns towards the conclusion. Since God humbles him who exalts himself, and since He humbles in order to exalt, it is a happy thing when He corrects (הוכיח) us by afflictive dispensations; and His chastisement (מוּסר) is to be received not with a turbulent spirit, but resignedly, yea joyously: the same thought as ; , in both passages borrowed from this; whereas here, like Hos 6:1; Lam 3:31., refers to Deu 32:39. רפא, to heal, is here conjugated like a הל verb (Ges. §75, rem. 21). is formed after the manner of the so-called number-proverbs ( ; , ), as also the roll of the judgment of the nations in : in six troubles, yea in still more than six. רע is the extremity that is perhaps to be feared. In , the praet . is a kind of prophetic praet . The scourge of the tongue recalls the similar promise, , where, instead of scourge, it is: the disputes of the tongue. שׁוד, from שׁדד violence, disaster, is allied in sound with שׁוט. Isaiah has this passage of the book of Job in his memory when he writes Job 28:15. The promises of Eliphaz now continue to rise higher, and sound more delightful and more glorious.

‏ Job 5:17

Job 5:17-21 17 Behold, happy is the man whom Eloah correcteth;

So despise not the chastening of the Almighty! 18 For He woundeth, and He also bindeth up;

He bruiseth, and His hands make whole. 19 In six troubles He will rescue thee,

And in seven no evil shall touch thee. 20 In famine He will redeem thee from death,

And in war from the stroke of the sword. 21 When the tongue scourgeth, thou shalt be hidden;

And thou shalt not fear destruction when it cometh.

The speech of Eliphaz now becomes persuasive as it turns towards the conclusion. Since God humbles him who exalts himself, and since He humbles in order to exalt, it is a happy thing when He corrects (הוכיח) us by afflictive dispensations; and His chastisement (מוּסר) is to be received not with a turbulent spirit, but resignedly, yea joyously: the same thought as Pro 3:11-13; Psa 94:12, in both passages borrowed from this; whereas Job 5:18 here, like Hos 6:1; Lam 3:31., refers to Deu 32:39. רפא, to heal, is here conjugated like a הל verb (Ges. §75, rem. 21). Job 5:19 is formed after the manner of the so-called number-proverbs (Pro 6:16; Pro 30:15, Pro 30:18), as also the roll of the judgment of the nations in Amos 1-2: in six troubles, yea in still more than six. רע is the extremity that is perhaps to be feared. In Job 5:20, the praet. is a kind of prophetic praet. The scourge of the tongue recalls the similar promise, Psa 31:21, where, instead of scourge, it is: the disputes of the tongue. שׁוד, from שׁדד violence, disaster, is allied in sound with שׁוט. Isaiah has this passage of the book of Job in his memory when he writes Job 28:15. The promises of Eliphaz now continue to rise higher, and sound more delightful and more glorious.