Job 5:17–27

¹⁷Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

¹⁸For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

¹⁹In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

²⁰In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

²¹Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

²²In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.

²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

²⁶Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in in its season.

²⁷Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.