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Job 5:19

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5:19He will deliver you71 from six calamities;

yes, in seven72 no evil will touch you.

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Footnotes

  1. 71 The verb is the Hiphil imperfect of נָצַל (natsal, “deliver”). These verbs might have been treated as habitual imperfects if it were not for the use of the numerical images—“six calamities … in seven.” So the nuance is specific future instead.
  2. 72 The use of a numerical ladder as we have here—“six // seven” is frequent in wisdom literature to show completeness. See Prov 6:16; Amos 1:3, Mic 5:5. A number that seems to be sufficient for the point is increased by one, as if to say there is always one more. By using this Eliphaz simply means “in all troubles” (see H. H. Rowley, Job [], 56).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He will deliver you from six troubles;

in seven no evil shall touch you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

From six calamities he will rescue you;

in seven no harm will touch you.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He will rescue you from six calamities;

no harm will touch you in seven.

NLTNew Living Translation

From six disasters he will rescue you;

even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

From six troubles he will deliver you,

and in seven evil shall not touch you.

KJV 1900King James Version

He shall deliver thee in six troubles:

Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.