Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial: In teaching us the will of God

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.

With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.