Job 2:5
gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:
6And the Lord said to Satan: Behold be is in thy hand, but yet save his life.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and let not thy people be destroyed.
Job 1:11But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he blesseth thee not to thy face.
Job 2:9And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.
Psalms 32:3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.
Psalms 39:10I was dumb, and I opened not my mouth, because thou hast 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 →