A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
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- WEB He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
- KJV He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- NKJV “Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,
- NASB ¶“A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,
- NLT “Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.
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God promises to make His goodness pass by and proclaim His name, declaring His sovereign freedom in showing mercy. God's glory is supremely His goodness and grace.
Overview
God answers that His glory will be revealed as His goodness and the proclamation of His name, Yahweh. His words about being gracious to whom He will reveal the freeness of divine mercy, which Paul cites in Romans 9:15 to teach God's sovereignty in salvation. God's grandest glory is His undeserved grace toward sinners.
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- Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
- Job 5:17–18Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
- Ps 119:71It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.
- Job 7:4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
- Job 20:11The youthful vigor that fills his bones will lie down with him in the dust.
- Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I keep Your word.
- Ps 38:1–8A Psalm of David, for remembrance. O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
- Deut 8:5So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- Rev 3:19Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- 2 Chr 16:12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
- 2 Chr 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- Isa 27:9Therefore Jacob’s guilt will be atoned for, and the full fruit of the removal of his sin will be this: When he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
- Isa 37:12–13Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
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