Job 5:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.”
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BSBPD
“For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 5:18 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 14:48If, however, the priest comes and inspects it, and the mildew has not spread after the house has been replastered, he shall pronounce the house clean, because the mildew is gone.
- Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- 1 Samuel 2:6The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
- Isaiah 19:22And the LORD will strike Egypt with a plague; He will strike them but heal them. They will turn to the LORD, and He will hear their prayers and heal them.
- Isaiah 30:26The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
- Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
- Hosea 6:1Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
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