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New Century Version

Job 5:18

God hurts, but he also bandages up; he injures, but his hands also heal.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Faith;   God;   Happiness;   Philosophy;   Righteous;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chasten, Chastisement;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Bind;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Whole;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for June 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For he wounds but he also bandages;he strikes, but his hands also heal.
Hebrew Names Version
For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.
King James Version
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
English Standard Version
For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
New English Translation
For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
Amplified Bible
"For He inflicts pain, but He binds up and gives relief; He wounds, but His hands also heal.
New American Standard Bible
"For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, but His hands also heal.
World English Bible
For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
Legacy Standard Bible
For He inflicts pain and gives relief;He wounds, and His hands also heal.
Berean Standard Bible
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
Contemporary English Version
He may cause injury and pain, but he will bandage and heal your cuts and bruises.
Complete Jewish Bible
For he wounds, but he bandages the sore; his hands may strike, but they also heal.
Darby Translation
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Easy-to-Read Version
God might injure you, but he will bandage those wounds. He might hurt you, but his hands also heal.
George Lamsa Translation
For it is he who wounds, and binds up; he smites, and his hands heal.
Good News Translation
God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.
Lexham English Bible
for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.
Literal Translation
For He wounds, and He binds up. He shatters, and His hands heal.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.
American Standard Version
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Bible in Basic English
For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For be maketh a wounde and he healeth: he smiteth, and his hande maketh whole againe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole.
King James Version (1611)
For he maketh sore, and bindeth vp: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
for he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal.
English Revised Version
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he woundith, and doith medicyn; he smytith, and hise hondis schulen make hool.
Update Bible Version
For he makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and his hands make whole.
Webster's Bible Translation
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
New King James Version
For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole.
New Living Translation
For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
New Life Bible
He punishes, but He gives comfort. He hurts, but His hands heal.
New Revised Standard
For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
Revised Standard Version
For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
Young's Literal Translation
For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal.

Contextual Overview

17 "The one whom God corrects is happy, so do not hate being corrected by the Almighty. 18 God hurts, but he also bandages up; he injures, but his hands also heal. 19 He will save you from six troubles; even seven troubles will not harm you. 20 God will buy you back from death in times of hunger, and in battle he will save you from the sword. 21 You will be protected from the tongue that strikes like a whip, and you will not be afraid when destruction comes. 22 You will laugh at destruction and hunger, and you will not fear the wild animals, 23 because you will have an agreement with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you. 24 You will know that your tent is safe, because you will check the things you own and find nothing missing. 25 You will know that you will have many children, and your descendants will be like the grass on the earth. 26 You will come to the grave with all your strength, like bundles of grain gathered at the right time.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Samuel 2:6, Psalms 147:3, Isaiah 30:26

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:8 - that they Exodus 15:26 - for I am Leviticus 14:3 - be healed Leviticus 14:48 - shall come in Deuteronomy 8:5 - as a man 2 Samuel 7:11 - have caused 2 Samuel 24:12 - that I may 2 Chronicles 25:8 - God hath power Job 11:10 - If he cut off Job 33:19 - chastened Job 42:10 - turned Psalms 6:2 - heal Psalms 51:8 - bones Psalms 60:2 - heal Psalms 118:18 - chastened Proverbs 27:6 - the wounds Isaiah 1:6 - they have Isaiah 19:22 - he shall smite Isaiah 38:9 - he had Jeremiah 30:13 - hast Hosea 6:1 - he hath torn 1 Corinthians 11:32 - we are Hebrews 12:5 - despise

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
He had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. At that time Cain was building a city, which he named after his son Enoch.
Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:15
When Mahalalel was 65 years old, he had a son named Jared.
1 Chronicles 1:3
Enoch was the father of Methuselah. Methuselah was the father of Lamech, and Lamech was the father of Noah.
Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the son of Kenan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" d; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and opening it, to let out the matter and make way for his medicine, and then lays on the plaster, and binds it up: so God causes grief and puts his people to pain, by diseases of body, or by making breaches in, their families and estates, and such like cutting providences; and then he binds up their breach, and heals the stroke of their wound, and in the issue makes all whole again: so in spiritual things; he cuts and wounds, and gives pain and uneasiness, by the sharp twoedged sword of the word, and by his Spirit making use of it; and lays open all the corruption of nature, and brings to repentance and humiliation for all transgressions; and then pours in the oil and wine of pardoning grace and mercy, and binds up the wounds that are made:

he woundeth, and his hands make whole; or "heal" e; the same thing is meant, expressed by different words; and the whole suggests, that every afflicted man, and particularly Job, should he behave well, and as he ought, under the afflicting hand of God, would be healed, and become sound and whole again, in body, mind, family, and estate; for, though God for the present caused grief, yet he would have compassion, since he did not willingly grieve the children of men; did not do it for his own pleasure, but for their good; as a skilful surgeon cuts and wounds in order to heal; see Deuteronomy 32:39.

d Assembly's Annotations. e תרפינה "sanabunt", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he maketh sore - That is, he afflicts.

And bindeth up - He heals. The phrase is taken from the custom of binding up a wound; see Isaiah 1:6, note; Isaiah 38:21, note. This was a common mode of healing among the Hebrews; and the practice of medicine appears to have been confined much to external applications. The meaning of this verse is, that afflictions come from God, and that he only can support, comfort, and restore. Health is his gift; and all the consolation which we need, and for which we can look, must come from him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 5:18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up. Thus nervously rendered by Coverdale, For though he make a wounde, he giveth a medicyne agayne; though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.


 
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