Job 33:19
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
BSB
ASV
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
KJV
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
He chastens him also with pain upon his bed, and makes all his bones to waste away. By bed, or pallet, or couch in holy Scripture, is understood, sometimes carnal pleasure, sometimes a resting in good works, sometimes temporal rest; for what is meant by what our Lord said in the Gospel to a certain one who was healed, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house, except that bodily pleasure is signified by bed?
He 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 were afflicted.
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 (Ps 38:3) [UMBREIT].
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
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But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
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Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
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Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
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My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD, and do not loathe His rebuke;
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And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
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Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.