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17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:17 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 17-27)Eliphaz, in this concluding paragraph of his discourse, gives Job (what he himself knew not how to take) a comfortable prospect of the issue of his afflictions, if he did but recover his temper and accommodate himself to them. Observe, I. The seasonable word of caution and exhortation that he gives him (Job 5:17): “ Despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty . Call it a chastening, which come...
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