Psalms 107:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Psalms 107:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Isaiah 65:6-7
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, …
Psalms 14:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 17-22)

Bodily sickness is another of the calamities of this life which gives us an opportunity of experiencing the goodness of God in recovering us, and of that the psalmist speaks in these verses, where we may observe, I. That we, by our sins, bring sickness upon ourselves and then it is our duty to pray, Ps. 107:17-18. 1. It is the sin of the soul that is the cause of sickness; we bring it upon ourselv…

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

(vv. 17)

17-22. Whether the same or not, this exigency illustrates that dispensation of God according to which sin brings its own punishment. are afflicted--literally, “afflict themselves,” that is, bring on disease, denoted by loathing of food, and drawing