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Job 5:20

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

KJV

In fame eruet te de morte, et in bello de manu gladii.

Vulgate

ἐν λιμῷ ῥύσεταί σε ἐκ θανάτου, ἐν πολέμῳ δὲ ἐκ χειρὸς σιδήρου λύσει σε.

LXX

In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.

ASV

בְּ֭/רָעָב פָּֽדְ/ךָ֣ מִ/מָּ֑וֶת וּ֝/בְ/מִלְחָמָ֗ה מִ֣/ידֵי חָֽרֶב

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
וֹ
v
noun · 157×
חֶ֖רֶב
chrb
noun · 409×
ם
m
verb · 57×
מִּלְחָמָ֔ה
mlchmh
noun · 316×
רָעָ֖ב
r'b
noun · 101×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 17:6 — And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
  • Gen 45:7 — And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
  • Hab 3:17 — Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and ther
  • Hos 13:14 — I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
  • Isa 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
  • Jer 37:21 — Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in t
  • Job 6:23 — Or, Deliver me from the enemy’s hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
  • Job 10:1 — My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Matt 24:6 — And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
  • Prov 10:3 — The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
  • Prov 10:3 — The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
  • Ps 27:3 — Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
  • Ps 33:19 — To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
  • Ps 37:19 — They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
  • Ps 37:19 — They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
  • Ps 144:10 — It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.