Job 2:5

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

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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 the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

6The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”

Job 1:11But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalms 39:10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

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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