Job 5:17
Good News Translation
Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

New Revised Standard Version
“How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Contemporary English Version
Consider yourself fortunate if God All-Powerful chooses to correct you.

New American Bible
Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.

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Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Proverbs 3:11,12 For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself. . . .

Jeremiah 31:18 Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Hebrews 12:5-11 And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him. . . .

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

James 5:11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

Revelation 3:19 Such as I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore and do penance.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
16And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth. 17Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.18For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the consolation which speaketh to you, as unto children, saying: My son, neglect not the discipline of the Lord: neither be thou wearied whilst thou art rebuked by him.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

Job 8:5
Yet if thou wilt arise early to God, and wilt beseech the Almighty:

Job 11:13
But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him.

Job 15:11
Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

Job 36:15
He shall deliver the poor out of his distress, and shall open his ear in affliction.

Job 36:16
Therefore he shall set thee at large out of the narrow mouth, and which hath no foundation under it: and the rest of thy table shall be full of fatness.

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of thy law.

Proverbs 3:11
For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.

Jeremiah 31:18
Hearing I heard Ephraim when he went into captivity: thou hast chastised me, and I was instructed, as a young bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for thou art the Lord my God.

Job 5:16
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