Job 2:5
Yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike to his bone and to his flesh—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
Literal Standard Version
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
4And Satan answers YHWH and says, “A skin for a skin, and all that a man has he gives for his life.
6And YHWH says to Satan, “Behold, he [is] in your hand; only take care of his life.”
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17And David says to God, “Did I not command to number the people? Indeed, it [is] I who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they do? O YHWH, my God, please let Your hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Your people—to be plagued.”
Job 1:11You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance has spread in the land, and yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike against anything that he has—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
Job 2:9And his wife says to him, “You are still keeping hold on your integrity: bless God and die.”
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, my bones have become old, || Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 39:10Turn aside Your stroke from off me, || From the striving of Your hand I have been 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 →