Job 2:5

Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to your face.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.

6And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, Was it not I that gave orders to number the people? and I am the guilty one; I have greatly sinned: but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord God, let your hand be upon me, and upon my father's house, and not on your people for destruction, O Lord!

Job 1:11But put forth your hand, and touch all that he has: verily he will bless you to your face.

Job 2:9And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. 1

Psalms 39:10I have not hid your truth within my heart, and I have declared your salvation; I have not hid your mercy and your truth from the great congregation. 1

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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