Job 2:5
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
In Context
4And Satan answered LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has he will give for his life.
6And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, Is it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? Even I it is who have sinned and done very badly. But these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be against me, and agains
Job 1:11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, Do thou still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me. I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Matthew Henry on Job 2:2-7
Satan Again Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord . 2 And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 3 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright… Read the whole commentary →