Psalm 107:17 Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.

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New International Version
Some became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered affliction because of their iniquities.

English Standard Version
Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;

New American Standard Bible
Fools, because of their rebellious way, And because of their iniquities, were afflicted.

King James Bible
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Fools suffered affliction because of their rebellious ways and their sins.

International Standard Version
Because of their rebellious ways, fools suffered for their iniquities.

American Standard Version
Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He took them out of the way of their iniquity: for they were brought low for their injustices.

Darby Bible Translation
Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;

Young's Literal Translation
Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:6
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said the LORD, which have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Jeremiah 4:18
Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of your iniquity; because your sins were increased.

Jeremiah 30:15
Why cry you for your affliction? your sorrow is incurable for the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

Lamentations 3:39
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Ezekiel 24:23
And your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

107:17-22 If we knew no sin, we should know no sickness. Sinners are fools. They hurt their bodily health by intemperance, and endanger their lives by indulging their appetites. This their way is their folly. The weakness of the body is the effect of sickness. It is by the power and mercy of God that we are recovered from sickness, and it is our duty to be thankful. All Christ's miraculous cures were emblems of his healing diseases of the soul. It is also to be applied to the spiritual cures which the Spirit of grace works. He sends his word, and heals souls; convinces, converts them, makes them holy, and all by the word. Even in common cases of recovery from sickness, God in his providence speaks, and it is done; by his word and Spirit the soul is restored to health and holiness.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17-22. Whether the same or not, this exigency illustrates that dispensation of God according to which sin brings its own punishment.

are afflicted—literally, "afflict themselves," that is, bring on disease, denoted by loathing of food, and drawing