Job 1:11
But if you reach out and take everything he has, he will definitely curse you to your face.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:5When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and purify them by getting up early in the morning to offer a burnt offering for each of them. He was concerned, thinking to himself, “Maybe my children have sinned in some way and have unintentionally offended God.” This is what Job always did.
Job 1:21“I was naked when I came out of my mother's womb, and I shall be naked when I leave,” he said. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. May the Lord's name be honored.”
Job 2:5But reach out and hurt his bones and his flesh, and he will definitely curse you to your face.”
Job 2:7Then Satan left the Lord's presence and inflicted Job with horrible skin sores from the bottom of his feet to the top of his head.
Job 4:5But now you're the one suffering and you're upset.
Psalms 105:15“Don't touch my chosen people; don't harm my prophets!”
Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13
Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 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 man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →