Job 2:5

Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh — if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

Young's Literal Translation

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

4And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.

6And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, he [is] in thy hand; only his life take care of.'

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17And David saith unto God, 'Did not I — I say to number the people? Yea, I it [is] who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people — to be plagued.'

Job 1:11The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath — if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

Job 2:9And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

Psalms 39:10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

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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