Bible Verses About Afflictions Made Beneficial: In keeping us from again departing from God

"For has anyone said to God, 'I have been chastised without having offended;

teach me what I have failed to see; and if I have done wrong, I will do it no more'?

On that day the remnant of Isra'el, those of the house of Ya'akov who escaped, will no longer rely on the man who struck them down, but will truly rely on ADONAI, the Holy One of Isra'el.

The prophets will bear the guilt for their sins - the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of the inquirer -

so that the house of Isra'el will no longer wander away from me or defile themselves with all their crimes; rather, they will be my people and I will be their God,' says Adonai ELOHIM."