Job 2:5
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Berean Standard Bible
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
4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, “Was it not I who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? O LORD my God, please let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house, but do not let this plague remain upon Your people.”
Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Job 2:9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your 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 →