Job 2:5

but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!

Darby Translation

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 Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;

6And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned and done evil; but these sheep, what have they done? Let thy hand, I pray thee, Jehovah my God, be on me and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be smitten.

Job 1:11But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!

Job 2:9And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, 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 →

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