Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

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In The King James Version

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

In Context

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

8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat amongst the ashes.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:9It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be boils and blisters breaking out on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 28:35The LORD will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

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

Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

Isaiah 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Revelation 16:11and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They still didn’t repent of their works.

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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