Job 5:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

Job 5:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 34:19
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Proverbs 24:16
For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.
Psalms 91:3-10
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. …
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(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 comes…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. in six ... yea, in seven--(Pr 6:16; Am 1:3). The Hebrew idiom fixes on a certain number (here “six”), in order to call attention as to a thing of importance; then increases the force by adding, with a “yea, nay seven,” the next higher number; here “seven,” the sacred and perfect number. In all possible troubles; not merely in the precise number “seven.”