Job 5:19 - Exposition

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven (comp. Amos 1:3 , Amos 1:6 , Amos 1:9 , Amos 1:11 , Amos 1:13 , "For three transgressions … and for four"). An idiomatic way of expressing an indefinite number. There shall no evil touch thee; i.e. no real evil, nothing calculated to do thee real hurt. All affliction is "for the present grievous;" but if it "afterward yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby" ( Hebrews 12:11 ), it does not do us harm, but good.