Job 2:5
But stretch out your hand now and touch his bones and his flesh, and see if he does not curse you to your face.”
Unlocked Literal Bible
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
4Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Skin for skin, indeed; a man will give all he has for his life.
6Yahweh said to Satan, “See, he is in your hand; it is only his life that you must spare.”
Cross References
1 Chronicles 21:17David said to God, “Is it not I that commanded that the army be numbered? I did this wicked thing. But these sheep, what have they done? Yahweh my God! Let your hand strike me and my family, but do not let the plague remain on your people.”
Job 1:11But now stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and see if he does not curse you to your face.”
Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die.”
Psalms 32:3When I remained silent, my bones were wasting away 1 while I groaned all day long. 1
Psalms 39:10Stop wounding me; 1 I am overwhelmed by the blow of your hand. 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 →