Job 2:7
Then Satan went away from the presence of Yahweh. He struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his feet to his head.
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In Context
6Yahweh said to Satan, “See, he is in your hand; it is only his life that you must spare.”
8Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and he sat down in the middle of ashes.
Cross References
Exodus 9:9They will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt. They will cause blisters and sores to break out on people and animals throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Deuteronomy 28:35Yahweh will attack you in the knees and legs with severe boils from which you cannot be cured, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head.
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 30:17In the night my bones in me are pierced; 1 the pains that gnaw at me take no rest. 1
Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot to the head there is no part unharmed; 1 only wounds, and bruises, and fresh open wounds; 1 they have not been closed, cleansed, bandaged, nor treated with oil. 1
Revelation 16:11They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and sores, and they still refused to repent of what they had done.
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 →