Good; necessary, and greatly beneficial. He repeats what in effect he said before, Psalms 119:67, partly to intimate the certainty and importance of this truth, and partly because it is a great paradox to worldly men, who generally esteem afflictions to be evil, yea, the worst of evils.
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Psalms 119:71
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.