Job 2:6
And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
In Context
5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:21And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shall entice him, and shall also prevail. Go forth, and do so.
Job 1:12And LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in thy power, only upon himself do not put forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD.
Psalms 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples.
Luke 12:23For the life is more than the food, and the body, the clothing.
1 Corinthians 10:13No temptation has taken you except is common to man. But God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted above what ye are able, but with the temptation will also make the way to escape, to enable you to endure.
Revelation 20:1And I saw an agent coming down out of heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his 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 →