Job 2:5

But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and [see] whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

Leeser Tanakh

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

4Then answered the Accuser the Lord, and said, Skin for skin: yea, all that a man hath will he give in behalf of his life.

6Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, he is in thy hand: only take care of his life.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17And David said unto God, Was it not I that ordered to count the people? and I am the one that have sinned and have done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house, but not against thy people, that there should be a plague.

Job 1:11But stretch only forth thy hand and touch all that he hath, and [see] whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Art thou still holding fast to thy integrity? renounce God, and die.

Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.

Psalms 39:10(39:11) Remove thou thy plague away from me: from the blows of thy hand am I consumed.

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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