Job 2:9
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
In Context
8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Judges 14:17She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
2 Kings 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
Job 2:3Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Matthew Henry on Job 2:8-11
Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord , and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive… Read the whole commentary →