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18 For even though he wounds, he also binds up;
    he smites, but his hands also heal.
19 He will deliver you from trouble six times,
    and on the seventh[a] no evil will touch you.
20 In time of famine he will rescue you from death,
    and in wartime from the thrust of the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 5:19 Six times . . . on the seventh: a literary device for indicating a very large number or even a totality (see Prov 6:16f; 30:15f; Am 1:3-13).

18 For he wounds, but he also binds up;(A)
    he injures, but his hands also heal.(B)
19 From six calamities he will rescue(C) you;
    in seven no harm will touch you.(D)
20 In famine(E) he will deliver you from death,
    and in battle from the stroke of the sword.(F)

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