Job 2:6
And the Lord said to Satan: Behold be is in thy hand, but yet save his life.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 18:21And he answered: I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive, and shalt prevail: go out, and do so.
Job 1:12Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
Psalms 65:7Thou who preparest the mountains by thy strength, being girded with power:
Luke 12:23The life is more than the meat, and the body is more than the raiment.
1 Corinthians 10:13Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.
Revelation 20:1And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, 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 →