He shall deliver you in six troubles, Yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
Parallel translations
- WEB He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
- KJV He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
- BSB He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
- NASB “In six troubles He will save you; Even in seven, evil will not touch you.
- NLT From six disasters he will rescue you; even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.
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Quick answer
God will deliver in six troubles, and in seven no evil will touch you. It promises repeated, complete rescue from every kind of calamity.
Overview
Using a numerical pattern that means in trouble after trouble, Eliphaz assures total deliverance to the one God favors. The promise of God's protective care is true for his people. Yet it must be read with the whole of Scripture, which shows the righteous, including Christ, passing through real suffering, so that ultimate deliverance is often through, not merely from, affliction.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
- 1 Cor 10:13No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Ps 91:3–10For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
- Prov 24:16for a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
- 2 Pet 2:9the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;
- 2 Cor 1:8For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
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