Job 2:5
But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.
Bible in Basic English
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 the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.
6And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.
Job 1:11But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
Job 2:9And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
Psalms 32:3When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Psalms 39:10\39:9\I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
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 →