God’s Word Translation
Job 33:19
19In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined with endless aching in their bones
Job 33:19 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- New International Version (NIV)“Or someone may be chastened on a bed of pain with constant distress in their bones,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,
Context of Job 33:19
17⌞He warns them⌟ to turn away from doing ⌞wrong⌟ and to stop being arrogant. 18He keeps their souls from the pit and their lives from crossing the River ⌞of Death⌟. In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined with endless aching in their bones 20so that their whole being hates food and they lose their appetite for a delicious meal. 21Their flesh becomes so thin that it can’t be seen. Their bones, not seen before, will be exposed.
Read all of Job 33Job 33:19 word by word
וְהוּכַ֣ח בְּ֭מַכְאוֹב עַל־מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ וְר֖וֹב עֲצָמָ֣יו אֵתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 33:19
- Job 5:17“Blessed is the person whom God corrects. That person should not despise discipline from the Almighty.
- Deuteronomy 8:5Learn this lesson by heart: The Lord your God was disciplining you as parents discipline their children.
- Psalms 94:12O Lord, blessed is the person whom you discipline and instruct from your teachings.
- Psalms 119:67Before you made me suffer, I used to wander off, but now I hold on to your word.
- Isaiah 27:9In this way the wrongdoings of the descendants of Jacob are covered up. This is the way they will turn from their sins— when they turn all the altar stones into powdered chalk and no poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah or incense altars are left standing.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when the Lord judges us, he disciplines us so that we won’t be condemned along with the rest of the world.
- Revelation 3:19I correct and discipline everyone I love. Take this seriously, and change the way you think and act.
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I ask, ‘When will I get up?’ But the evening is long, and I’m exhausted from tossing about until dawn.
- Job 20:11His bones, once full of youthful vigor, will lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 30:17At night God pierces my bones. My body doesn’t rest.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was furious at the seer. He was so angry with Hanani that he put Hanani in prison. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time in his reign.
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not angrily punish me or discipline me in your wrath.
- Isaiah 37:12Did the gods of the nations which my ancestors destroyed rescue Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Commentaries on Job 33:19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 19IV. By Afflictions He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, etc. - Afflictions are a fourth means which God makes use of to awaken and convert sinners. In the hand of God these were the cause of the salvation of David, as himself testifies: Before I was afflicted, I went astray, Psalm 119:67, Psalm 119:71, Psalm 119:75. The multitude of his bones - By such diseases, especially those of a rheumatic kind, when to the patient's apprehension every bone is…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 19He is chastened also with pain - As another means of checking and restraining him from the commission of sin. When the warnings of the night fail, and when he is bent on a life of sin, then God lays him on a bed of pain, and he is brought to reflection there. There he has an opportunity to think of his life, and of all the consequences which must follow from a career of iniquity. This involves the main inquiry before the disputants. It was, why people…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 19-28Verses 19-28 Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God often afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will be of great use for our getting good from sickness, in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When afflictions have done their work, they shall…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1919. When man does not heed warnings of the night, he is chastened, &c. The new thought suggested by Elihu is that affliction is disciplinary (Job 36:10); for the good of the godly. multitude--so the Margin, Hebrew (Keri). Better with the text (Chetib), "And with the perpetual (strong) contest of his bones"; the never-resting fever in his bones (Psa 38:3) [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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