Job 2:7

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot even unto his crown.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.'

8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:9And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.'

Deuteronomy 28:35The LORD will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.

Job 1:11But put forth Thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.'

Job 30:17In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and festering sores: they have not been pressed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

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 →

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