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Job 33:19
19“Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless 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
17He makes them turn from doing wrong; he keeps them from pride. 18He protects them from the grave, from crossing over the river of death. “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones. 20They lose their appetite for even the most delicious food. 21Their flesh wastes away, and their bones stick out.
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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“But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.
- Deuteronomy 8:5Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good.
- Psalms 94:12Joyful are those you discipline, Lord, those you teach with your instructions.
- Psalms 119:67I used to wander off until you disciplined me; but now I closely follow your word.
- Isaiah 27:9The Lord did this to purge Israel’s wickedness, to take away all her sin. As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust. No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.
- 1 Corinthians 11:32Yet when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
- Revelation 3:19I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
- Job 7:4Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
- Job 20:11Though they are young, their bones will lie in the dust.
- Job 30:17At night my bones are filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
- 2 Chronicles 16:10Asa became so angry with Hanani for saying this that he threw him into prison and put him in stocks. At that time Asa also began to oppress some of his people.
- Psalms 38:1O Lord, don’t rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your rage!
- Isaiah 37:12Have the gods of other nations rescued them—such nations as Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar? My predecessors destroyed them all!
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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