Job 1:11
But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.
Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the LORD’s name.”
Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
Job 4:5But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
Psalms 105:15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
Matthew Henry on Job 1:7-13
Satan before God; Satan Permitted to Afflict Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord , and Satan came also among them. 7 And the Lord said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the Lord , and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. 8 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 man, one that feareth God, and… Read the whole commentary →