Job 5:24
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You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.
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Eliphaz, in the foregoing chapter, for the making good of his charge against Job, had vouched a word from heaven, sent him in a vision. In this chapter he appeals to those that bear record on earth, to the saints, the faithful witnesses of God's truth in all ages (Job 5:1). They will testify, I. That the sin of sinners is their ruin (Job 5:2-5). II. That yet affliction is the common lot of mankind (Job 5:6, Job 5:7). III. That when we are in affliction it is our wisdom and duty to apply to God, for he is able and ready to help us (Job 5:8-16). IV. That the afflictions which are borne well will end well; and Job particularly, if he would come to a better temper, might assure himself that God had great mercy in store for him (Job 5:17-27). So that he concludes his discourse in somewhat a better humour than he began it.
Open source ↗5:24 nothing will be missing: See Deut 28:11-12; cp. Job 1:6-19.
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no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.
if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.
The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.
Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.
Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.