It is right for them to go through fire and through water, that He may bring them out into a healthy placeright to endure chastening, that they may be partakers of His holinessright to have the sentence of death in themselves, that they may trust in the living God, and that His strength may be perfect in their weakness.

I humbly trust, however, it needs no chastening, and aver that I do not go for my facts to my imagination.

[Sidenote: Job 5:17-22, 26, 27] Happy is the man whom God correcteth, Therefore reject not the chastening of the Almighty.

According to him, the following text is wrong: "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord.

Here, she was almost greatat any rate, the greatest; and she may well have thought herself worth all the chastening she ordered and endured.