Job 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of LORD, and smote Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6And LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand, only spare his life.
8And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.
Cross References
Exodus 9:9And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 28:35LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which thou cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot to the crown of thy head.
Job 1:11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, [but] wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes. They have not been closed nor bound up nor soothed with oil.
Revelation 16:11And they blasphemed the God of heaven from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works.
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 →