Job Chapter 5 on G-d’s Discipline

All are but tests to make you deserving of G-d’s help and protection.

Difficulties and sufferings in life are not always punishment; especially to the righteous.

What then are those for?

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“Be Confident Of G-d’s Help”

For anger kills the fool; envy slays the naïve.
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For destruction does not emerge from dust, nor does misery grow from earth.
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For man is born to weariness, while spiritual beings soar in flight.
:7
By day they encounter darkness, and at midday they grope as in the night.
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Thus there is hope for the poor, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
:16
Behold, fortunate is the man whom God rebukes. Do not despise the Almighty’s discipline:
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For He inflicts pain and bandages it; He crushes, and His hands heal.
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From six travails He will save you, and in the seventh no harm will reach you;
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in famine He will deliver you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.
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You will go to the grave in ripe old age, just as a sheaf is brought in, in its season.
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1 Now Eliphaz the Temanite raised his voice and said,
2 “Because He tested you with [one] thing, should you weary? Who can withhold words?
3 Behold, you have chastised many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
4 Your words would pick up the stumbler, and you would strengthen buckling knees.
5 Now when it comes to you, you weary; it touches you and you are frightened.
6 Surely, your fear was your foolishness, your hope and the sincerity of your ways.
7 Remember now, who was innocent that perished, and where were the upright destroyed?
8 As I have seen, those who plow violence and sow mischief will reap it.
9 From the breath of God they will perish, and from the wind of His nostrils they will be destroyed.
10 The roar of an old lion, the voice of a young lion, and the teeth of lion cubs were misled.
11 A lion perishes without prey, and the young of the lion will scatter.
12 Now a word was conveyed secretly to me, and my ear grasped a bit of it.
13 In the thoughts of the visions of night, when slumber falls on people,
14 terror and quaking befell me, and He frightened most of my bones.
15 And a spirit passed by my face; it made the hair of my flesh stand on end.
16 It was standing, but I did not recognize its appearance, this image before my eyes; I heard a faint voice.
17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or can a man be purer than his Maker?
18 Behold, He does not trust His servants and He casts reproach upon His angels.
19 Surely those who dwell in mud houses, whose foundation is in dust; they crush them before the worms.
20 From morning to evening they are crushed without giving [a thought]; they perish to eternity.
21 Their haughtiness, which is absorbed within them-does it not leave [them]? They die, and not with wisdom.