New English Translation
Job 33:19
19Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his 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
17to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride. 18He spares a person’s life from corruption, his very life from crossing over the river. Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones, 20so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare. 21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
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וְהוּכַ֣ח בְּ֭מַכְאוֹב עַל־מִשְׁכָּב֑וֹ וְר֖וֹב עֲצָמָ֣יו אֵתָֽן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 33:19
- Job 5:17“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Deuteronomy 8:5Be keenly aware that just as a parent disciplines his child, the Lord your God disciplines you.
- Psalms 94:12How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,
- Psalms 119:67Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, but now I keep your instructions.
- Isaiah 27:9So in this way Jacob’s sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Revelation 3:19All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!
- Job 7:4If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
- Job 20:11His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 30:17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger! Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!
- Isaiah 37:12Were the nations whom my predecessors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods?
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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