Job 5:17-27

Good News Translation

^17 (A)Happy is the person whom God corrects!
    Do not resent it when he rebukes you.
^18 (B)God bandages the wounds he makes;
    his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.
¹⁹ Time after time he will save you from harm;
²⁰     when famine comes, he will keep you alive,
    and in war protect you from death.
²¹ God will rescue you from slander;
    he will save you when destruction comes.
²² You will laugh at violence and hunger
    and not be afraid of wild animals.
²³ The fields you plow will be free of rocks;
    wild animals will never attack you.
²⁴ Then you will live at peace in your tent;
    when you look at your sheep, you will find them safe.
²⁵ You will have as many children
    as there are blades of grass in a pasture.
²⁶ Like wheat that ripens till harvest time,
    you will live to a ripe old age.
²⁷ Job, we have learned this by long study.
    It is true, so now accept it.