Job 5:18

5:18 For he wounds, but he also bandages;

he strikes, but his hands also heal.

Job 40:5

40:5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer;

twice, but I will say no more.”


sn Verses 18-23 give the reasons why someone should accept the chastening of God – the hand that wounds is the same hand that heals. But, of course, the lines do not apply to Job because his suffering is not due to divine chastening.

tn The addition of the independent pronoun here makes the subject emphatic, as if to say, “For it is he who makes….”

tn The imperfect verbs in this verse describe the characteristic activities of God; the classification as habitual imperfect fits the idea and is to be rendered with the English present tense.

tn Heb “I will not add.”