Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

New American Standard Bible

“For He inflicts pain, and gives relief;
He wounds, and His hands also heal.

King James Version

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Holman Bible

For He crushes but also binds up;
He strikes, but His hands also heal.

International Standard Version

because though he wounds, but then applies bandages; though he strikes, his hands still heal.

American Standard Version

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Amplified


“For He inflicts pain, but He binds up and gives relief;
He wounds, but His hands also heal.

Bible in Basic English

For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

Darby Translation

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Julia Smith Translation

For he will cause pain, and he will bind up: he will smite and his hands will heal.

King James 2000

For he bruises, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

Modern King James verseion

For He makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and His hands make whole.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For though he make a wound, he giveth a medicine again: though he smite, his hand maketh whole again.

NET Bible

For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

New Heart English Bible

For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

The Emphasized Bible

For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.

Webster

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

World English Bible

For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

Youngs Literal Translation

For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
כּאב 
Ka'ab 
Usage: 8

and bindeth up
חבשׁ 
Chabash 
Usage: 33

מחץ 
Machats 
Usage: 15

and his hands
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Job 5:18

Images Job 5:18

Context Readings

Blessing Comes When God Corrects You

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole. 19 He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.



Cross References

Isaiah 30:26

Moreover 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 that LORD binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

Deuteronomy 32:39

See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

1 Samuel 2:6

LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.

Psalm 147:3

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

Hosea 6:1

Come, and let us return to LORD, for he has torn, and he will heal us. He has smitten, and he will bind us up.

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