Job 2:7

So Satan left, and he caused Job to be afflicted with very painful boils, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

Translation for Translators

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

6Yahweh replied to Satan, “◄All right/Okay►, you may do to him whatever you want to do, but do not cause him to die.”

8Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped the boils on his skin, and he sat in ashes as people did when they were mourning for those who had died.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:9The ashes/soot will spread all over the country of Egypt like fine dust. And the ashes/soot will cause boils to afflict both the Egyptian people and their animals, all over the land.”

Deuteronomy 28:35Yahweh will cause your legs to be covered with painful boils that cannot be healed, and you will have boils from the bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads.

Job 1:11But if you take away [MTY] everything that he has, he will curse you openly. [IDM]”

Job 30:17My bones ache during the night, and the pain that torments me never stops.

Isaiah 1:6It is as though [MET] from the soles/bottoms of your feet to the tops of your heads nothing is healthy; there are only open wounds and cuts and sores that have not been cleaned or bandaged, and no olive oil has been put on them to heal them.

Revelation 16:11They insulted God who rules in heaven, because their sores were so painful. But they refused to stop doing the evil things that they were doing.

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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