Job 5:18
Good News Translation
God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.

New Revised Standard Version
For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

Contemporary English Version
He may cause injury and pain, but he will bandage and heal your cuts and bruises.

New American Bible
For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands give healing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

Deuteronomy 32:39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Psalm 147:3 Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

Isaiah 30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
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.19In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39
See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord killeth and maketh alive, he bringeth down to hell, and bringeth back again.

Psalm 147:3
Who healeth the broken of heart, and bindeth up their bruises.

Isaiah 30:26
And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days: in the day when the Lord shall bind up the wound of his people, and shall heal the stroke of their wound.

Hosea 6:1
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.

Job 5:17
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