¶“A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,
Parallel translations
- 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:
- 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,
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
- Job 5:17–18“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- Ps 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law;
- Ps 119:71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
- 1 Cor 11:32But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
- Job 20:11His bones are full of his youth, but youth shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Ps 119:67Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
- Ps 38:1–8A Psalm by David, for a memorial. Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
- Deut 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
- Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
- 2 Chr 16:12In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.
- 2 Chr 16:10Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
- Isa 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
- Isa 37:12–13Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
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