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Job 5:18

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5:18For68 he69 wounds,70 but he also bandages;

he strikes, but his hands also heal.

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Footnotes

  1. 68 Verses 18–23 give the reasons why someone should accept the chastening of God—the hand that wounds is the same hand that heals. But, of course, the lines do not apply to Job because his suffering is not due to divine chastening.
  2. 69 The addition of the independent pronoun here makes the subject emphatic, as if to say, “For it is he who makes.…”
  3. 70 The imperfect verbs in this verse describe the characteristic activities of God; the classification as habitual imperfect fits the idea and is to be rendered with the English present tense.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For he wounds, but he binds up;

he shatters, but his hands heal.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For he wounds, but he also binds up;

he injures, but his hands also heal.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For he wounds but he also bandages;

he strikes, but his hands also heal.

NLTNew Living Translation

For though he wounds, he also bandages.

He strikes, but his hands also heal.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

for he himself wounds, but he binds up;

he strikes, but his hands heal.

KJV 1900King James Version

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:

He woundeth, and his hands make whole.