Job 2:4

And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

In Context

3And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing Cod, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I sho uld afflict him without cause.

5gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:17And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, end asses and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.

Joshua 9:24They answered: It was told us thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives. compelled by the dread we had of you and we took this counsel.

Esther 7:3Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.

Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats.

Matthew 6:25Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Luke 12:23The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the raiment.

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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