He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
Parallel translations
- WEB He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;
- BSB A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
- 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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Quick answer
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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- Job 5:17–18Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
- Job 20:11His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
- Ps 38:1–8O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- Deut 8:5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Chr 16:12And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
- 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
- Isa 27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
- Isa 37:12–13Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
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