Teks -- Job 5:18 (NET)

5:18 For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

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Wesley: Job 5:18 - For he, &c.

_God's usual method is, first to humble, and then to exalt. And he never makes a wound too great, too deep for his own cure.

JFB: Job 5:18 - he maketh sore, and bindeth up

(Deu 32:39; Hos 6:1; 1Sa 2:6). An image from binding up a wound. The healing art consisted much at that time in external applications.

Clarke: Job 5:18 - For he maketh sore, and bindeth up

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up - Thus nervously rendered by Coverdale, For though he make a wounde, he giveth a medicyne agayne; though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.

TSK: Job 5:18

Deu 32:39; 1Sa 2:6; Psa 147:3; Isa 30:26

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Poole: Job 5:18 - Bindeth up

Bindeth up to wit, the wounds, as good surgeons use to do when they have dressed them, in order to their healing. Compare Psa 147:3 Eze 34:4 . The sense is, Though he hath seen it fit to wound thee, yet he will not always grieve thee, but will in due time release thee from all thy miseries. Therefore despair not.

Gill: Job 5:18 - For he maketh sore, and bindeth up // he woundeth, and his hands make whole

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up,.... Or, "though he maketh sore, yet he bindeth up" ^d; as a surgeon, who makes a wound the sorer by probing and opening it, to let out the matter and make way for his medicine, and then lays on the plaster, and binds it up: so God causes grief and puts his people to pain, by diseases of body, or by making breaches in, their families and estates, and such like cutting providences; and then he binds up their breach, and heals the stroke of their wound, and in the issue makes all whole again: so in spiritual things; he cuts and wounds, and gives pain and uneasiness, by the sharp twoedged sword of the word, and by his Spirit making use of it; and lays open all the corruption of nature, and brings to repentance and humiliation for all transgressions; and then pours in the oil and wine of pardoning grace and mercy, and binds up the wounds that are made:

he woundeth, and his hands make whole; or "heal" ^e; the same thing is meant, expressed by different words; and the whole suggests, that every afflicted man, and particularly Job, should he behave well, and as he ought, under the afflicting hand of God, would be healed, and become sound and whole again, in body, mind, family, and estate; for, though God for the present caused grief, yet he would have compassion, since he did not willingly grieve the children of men; did not do it for his own pleasure, but for their good; as a skilful surgeon cuts and wounds in order to heal; see Deu 32:39.