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He is chastened also with pain on his bed, With continual strife in his bones;
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Suffering as God's Second Voice
All commentators agree that this verse presents a second way God communicates with people. The first, mentioned in prior verses, is through dreams and visions. When those gentle warnings are not heeded, God may use physical suffering as a more direct and intense method to gain a person's attention for their own spiritual good.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He is chastened also with pain - As another means of checking and restraining him from the commission of sin. When the warnings of …
19th Century
Anglican
He is chastened. —This is the second manner in which God speaks—first by dreams, etc., then by afflictions.
Baptist
For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed This seems to be another way, in which God, according to his eternal pur…
Job complained of his diseases and concluded from them that God was angry with him; his friends did so too. But Elihu shows that God often afflicts…
13th Century
Catholic
Elihu has already proposed the things he intended to debate with Job. Since Job, before he spoke the words Elihu cited (Job 33:10–11), …
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