Job 2:5

Verse 5 of 13. The 2nd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

1Again 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.

2And 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.

3And 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 escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

4And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

6And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

7So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

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Job 2:5 in the World English Bible

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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Matthew Henry on Job 2:5

A challenge given to make a further trial of Job's integrity (v. 5): "Put forth thy hand now (for I find my hand too short to reach him, and too weak to hurt him) and touch his bone and his flesh (that is with him the only tender part, make him sick with smiting him, Mic. vi. 13), and then, I dare say, he will curse thee to thy face, and let go his integrity."

Read Matthew Henry on Job 2:1–6: Satan Again Permitted to Afflict Job. (b. c. 1520.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.