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Brenton's Septuagint

Job 33:19

And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Agency;   Chastisement;   Conviction;   God;   God Continued...;   Pain;   Philosophy;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Chastisement;   Distress;   Pain;   Trials;   The Topic Concordance - Deliverance;   Grace;   Hearing;   Prayer;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diseases;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eschatology (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Pain;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A person may be disciplined on his bed with painand constant distress in his bones,
Hebrew Names Version
He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;
King James Version
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
English Standard Version
"Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones,
New Century Version
People may be corrected while in bed in great pain; they may have continual pain in their very bones.
New English Translation
Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,
Amplified Bible
"Man is also disciplined with pain on his bed, And with unceasing complaint in his bones,
New American Standard Bible
"A person is also rebuked by pain in his bed, And with constant complaint in his bones,
World English Bible
He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;
Geneva Bible (1587)
He is also striken with sorow vpon his bed, and the griefe of his bones is sore,
Legacy Standard Bible
"Man is also reproved with pain on his bed,And with unceasing contention in his bones,
Berean Standard Bible
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
Contemporary English Version
Sometimes we are punished with a serious illness and aching joints.
Complete Jewish Bible
"He is also warned by pain when in bed, when all his bones are hurting;
Darby Translation
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Or those who are sick in bed might be suffering punishment from God. The pain that makes their bones ache might be a warning from him.
George Lamsa Translation
Man is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain;
Good News Translation
God corrects us by sending sickness and filling our bodies with pain.
Lexham English Bible
"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually,
Literal Translation
He is also chastened with pain on his bed, and enduring strife in his bones;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
he chasteneth him with sicknesse, & bringeth him to his bed: he laieth sore punyshmet vpo his bones,
American Standard Version
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Bible in Basic English
Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and all his bones grow stiff;
King James Version (1611)
Hee is chastened also with paine vpon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong paine.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He chasteneth hym with sickenesse vpon his bedde, he layeth sore punishement vpon his bones:
English Revised Version
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also God blameth a synnere bi sorewe in the bed, and makith alle the boonys of hym `to fade.
Update Bible Version
He is chastened also with pain on his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Webster's Bible Translation
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:
New King James Version
"Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with strong pain in many of his bones,
New Living Translation
"Or God disciplines people with pain on their sickbeds, with ceaseless aching in their bones.
New Life Bible
"Man is also punished with pain on his bed and has pain all the time in his bones.
New Revised Standard
They are also chastened with pain upon their beds, and with continual strife in their bones,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Or he is chastised with pain, upon his bed, and, the strife of his bones, is unceasing!
Douay-Rheims Bible
He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.
Revised Standard Version
"Man is also chastened with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;
Young's Literal Translation
And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones [is] enduring.
THE MESSAGE
"Or, God might get their attention through pain, by throwing them on a bed of suffering, So they can't stand the sight of food, have no appetite for their favorite treats. They lose weight, wasting away to nothing, reduced to a bag of bones. They hang on the cliff-edge of death, knowing the next breath may be their last.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with unceasing complaint in his bones;

Contextual Overview

19 And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed. 20 And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat; 21 until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall shew his bones bare. 22 His soul also draws nigh to death, and his life is in Hades. 23 Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and shew his folly; 24 he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow. 25 And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength. 26 And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression of praise: for he will render to men their due. 27 Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. 28 Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chastened: Job 5:17, Job 5:18, Deuteronomy 8:5, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 119:67, Psalms 119:71, Isaiah 27:9, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Revelation 3:19

pain: Job 7:4, Job 20:11, Job 30:17, 2 Chronicles 16:10, 2 Chronicles 16:12, Psalms 38:1-8, Isaiah 37:12, Isaiah 37:13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 20:5 - I will heal Job 4:14 - all my bones Job 14:22 - his flesh Job 19:20 - bone Job 36:8 - if Psalms 6:2 - my Psalms 30:3 - brought Psalms 31:9 - my soul Psalms 35:10 - All Psalms 38:3 - soundness Psalms 103:4 - redeemeth Psalms 107:18 - abhorreth Isaiah 38:16 - General Micah 6:13 - I make

Cross-References

Genesis 33:2
And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Genesis 33:17
And Jacob departs to his tents; and he made for himself there habitations, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of that place, Booths.
Genesis 33:20
And he set up there an alter, and called on the God of Israel.
Joshua 24:32
And the children of Israel brought up the bones of Joseph out of Egypt, and buried them in Sicima, in the portion of the land which Jacob bought of the Amorites who dwelt in Sicima for a hundred ewe-lambs; and he gave it to Joseph for a portion.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed,.... This seems to be another way, in which God, according to his eternal purposes, speaks unto men, as the word "also" intimates; namely, by afflictions, and sometimes painful ones; which have a voice in them, and men of wisdom will hearken to it, Micah 6:9. Pain here signifies not pain of the mind, or a wounded spirit, which is very afflicting, distressing, and intolerable; but pain of the body, as the next clause shows; and this endured on the bed, it being so great as to confine a man to his bed, or is what he felt there, where he might hope for ease and rest; see Job 7:13;

and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]; not with a slight one, but a very strong one, such as those felt who gnawed their tongues for pain, Revelation 16:10. Jarchi interprets it, the multitude of his bones, which are strong; though they are hardy and strong, yet filled with exquisite pain; and not one, or a few of them, but a multitude of them, as there are a multitude of them in a man's body; even all of them, as Hezekiah complains, which must be very excruciating indeed, Isaiah 38:13; and which was Job's case; not only his flesh was in pain, through the sores and ulcers upon him, but his bones were pierced in him, and his sinews had no rest, and he was full of tossings to and fro, Job 7:3; and in this way he was, as other good men are, reproved and chastened by the Lord; and in which way he had spoke to him, as he does to others, and which should be attended to; and since such painful afflictions are but fatherly chastisements, they should be patiently endured, and the voice of God in them listened to, and before long there will be no more pain: the "Cetib", or textual writing, is, "the contention of his bones is strong"; through pain, or with which God contends with men; we follow the marginal reading.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He is chastened also with pain - As another means of checking and restraining him from the commission of sin. When the warnings of the night fail, and when he is bent on a life of sin, then God lays him on a bed of pain, and he is brought to reflection there. There he has an opportunity to think of his life, and of all the consequences which must follow from a career of iniquity. This involves the main inquiry before the disputants. It was, why people were afflicted. The three friends of Job had said that it was a full proof of wickedness, and that when the professedly pious were afflicted it was demonstrative of insincerity and hypocrisy. Job had called this position in question, and proved that it could not be so, but still was at a loss why it was. Elihu now says, that affliction is a part of a disciplinary government; that it is one of the means which God adopts, when warnings are ineffectual, to restrain people and to bring them to reflection and repentance. This appears to have been a view which was almost entirely new to them.

And the multitude of his bones with strong pain - The bones, as has before been remarked, it was supposed might be the seat of the acutest pain; see the notes at Job 30:17; compare Job 20:11; Job 7:15; Job 30:30. The meaning here is, that the frame was racked with intense suffering in order to admonish men of sin, to save them from plunging into deeper transgression, and to bring them to repentance.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:19. He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, c.

IV. - AFFLICTIONS are a fourth means which God makes use of to awaken and convert sinners. In the hand of God these were the cause of the salvation of David, as himself testifies: Before I was afflicted, I went astray, Psalms 119:67; Psalms 119:71; Psalms 119:75.

The multitude of his bones — By such diseases, especially those of a rheumatic kind, when to the patient's apprehension every bone is diseased, broken, or out of joint.

Some render the passage, When the multitude of his bones is yet strong meaning those sudden afflictions which fall upon men when in a state of great firmness and vigour. The original, ורוב עצמיו אתן verob atsamaiv ethan, may be translated, And the strong multitude of his bones. Even the strong multitude of his bones is chastened with pain upon his bed; the place of rest and ease affording him no peace, quiet, or comfort.

The bones may be well termed multitudinous, as there are no less than 10 in the cranium, or skull; upper jaw, 13; lower jaw, 1; teeth, 32; tongue, 1; vertebrae, or back-bone, 24; ribs, 24; sternum, or breast-bone, 3; os innominatum, 1; scapula, or shoulder-blades, 2; arms, 6; hands, 54; thigh-bones, 2; knee-bones, 2; legs, 4; feet, 54: in all, not less than 233 bones, without reckoning the ossa sethamoides; because, though often numerous, they are found only in hard labourers, or elderly persons.


 
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