Job 5:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

Job 5:20 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 33:19
To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
Hosea 13:14
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Psalms 37:19
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
Genesis 45:7
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

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. 20)

20. power--(Jr 5:12). Hebrew, “hands.” of the sword--(Eze 35:5, Margin). Hands are given to the sword personified as a living agent.