What does Job 5:17 mean?

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Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

• Psalms 94:12

  Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;

• James 5:11

  Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

• James 1:12

  Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

• Jeremiah 31:18

  I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

• Hebrews 12:5

  and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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