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17 (A)Happy is the person whom God corrects!
    Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

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17 “Blessed is the one whom God corrects;(A)
    so do not despise the discipline(B) of the Almighty.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:17 Hebrew Shaddai; here and throughout Job

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

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11 (A)My child, when the Lord corrects you, pay close attention and take it as a warning.

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11 My son,(A) do not despise the Lord’s discipline,(B)
    and do not resent his rebuke,

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11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

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(A)Have you forgotten the encouraging words which God speaks to you as his children?

“My child, pay attention when the Lord corrects you,
    and do not be discouraged when he rebukes you.
Because the Lord corrects everyone he loves,
    and punishes everyone he accepts as a child.”

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And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart(A) when he rebukes you,
because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,(B)
    and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 12:6 Prov. 3:11,12 (see Septuagint)

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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