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

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.