Job 2:6

And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

In Context

5But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:21And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

Job 1:12And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

Psalms 65:7\65:6\The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

Luke 12:23Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

1 Corinthians 10:13You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.

Revelation 20:1And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep 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 →

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