Job 2:9

Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Renounce God, and die.

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

In Context

8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself withal, and sat down among the ashes.

10But he said to her, Thou talkest like one of the foolish women. What! shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this, Job sinned not with his lips.

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Cross References

Job 2:3Then said Jehovah to Satan, Hast thou observed my servant Job, that there is none like him upon the earth, an upright and good man, fearing God and departing from evil? And still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou didst excite me against him to destroy him without a cause.

Job 21:14And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us! We desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Matthew Henry on Job 2:8-11

Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 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. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. 9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive… Read the whole commentary →

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