In six crises He will deliver you;
even in seven, disaster will not touch you.
Job 5:19 Modern English Version (MEV)
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He
shall deliver thee in six troubles,.... Behaving as before directed; seeking
unto God, committing his cause and case to him, and leaving it with him; and
not despising the chastening of the Lord, but receiving and bearing it with
reverence, patience, and submission: and then the sense is, that God would
deliver out of whatsoever troubles he was or should be in, though they were
ever so many; a certain number being put for an uncertain one, Psa_34:19,
yea,
seven there shall no evil touch thee; which is a number expressive of multitude
and of perfection, and so may denote the multitude and fulness of afflictions:
the tribulations of God's people are many, through which they pass to heaven,
and there is a measure of them to be filled up; and when they are come to the
height, and the measure is fully up, then the Lord puts a stop to them, and
delivers out of all their troubles; and in the midst of them all, so preserves
them, that "no evil" shall so much as "touch" them; not the
evil of punishment; for, though those troubles and afflictions that attend them
are evil things, in a natural or civil sense, they are disagreeable and
distressing, yet they are not the effect of vindictive justice; there is not a
drop wrath and vengeance in them; and though they do come upon them and unto
them, upon their persons and families; yet not so as to do any real hurt, or as
to destroy them; see Psa_91:10; some think that seven particular
troubles are meant, hereafter mentioned, as Jarchi; as famine, war, an evil tongue,
destruction, dearness of provision, the beasts of the earth, and the stones of
the field.
John
Gill’s Exposition of the Bible
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All trials that befall us are onerous. What is often
difficult for us to remember is, no matter what brought the trials upon us, God
will not allow us to go through anything that we aren’t able to endure. It may
seem like the end of the world to us, but God is right beside us if only we’re
willing to put our hand in his and allow him to lead us through.
even in seven, disaster will not touch you.
Job 5:19 Modern English Version (MEV)
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