Job 2:6

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

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

In Context

5But stretch only forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and [see] whether he will not renounce thee to thy face.

7Thereupon went the Accuser forth from the presence of the Lord, and he smote Job with a sore inflammation, from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 18:21And he said, I will go forth, and I will become a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou wilt persuade him, and also prevail: go forth, and do so.

Job 1:12Then said the Lord unto the Accuser, Behold, all that is his be in thy power; only against himself shalt thou not stretch forth thy hand. The Accuser went thereupon away from the presence of the Lord.

Psalms 65:7(65:8) Who assuageth the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult of nations.

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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