English Standard Version
Job 2:5
5But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."
Job 2:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- New International Version (NIV)But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
- New King James Version (NKJV)But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
- New Living Translation (NLT)But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
Context of Job 2:5
3And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason." 4Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face." 6And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life." 7So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Read all of Job 2Job 2:5 word by word
אוּלָם֙ שְֽׁלַֽח־נָ֣א יָֽדְךָ֔ וְגַ֥ע אֶל־עַצְמ֖וֹ וְאֶל־בְּשָׂר֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֥א אֶל־פָּנֶ֖יךָ יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 2:5
- Job 1:11But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face."
- Job 19:20My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
- 1 Chronicles 21:17And David said to God, "Was it not I who gave command to number the people? It is I who have sinned and done great evil. 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 do not let the plague be on your people."
- Psalms 32:3For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
- Psalms 38:2For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.
- Psalms 39:10Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
- Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die."
- Job 1:5And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
- Leviticus 24:15And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
- Isaiah 8:21They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
Commentaries on Job 2:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5He will curse thee to thy face - Literally, If he will not bless thee to thy face or appearances. His piety to thee will be always regulated by thy bounty to him. See the note on Job 1:11.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5But put forth thine hand now - Satan felt that he had no power to afflict Job without permission. Malignant as he was, he knew that God only could subject the holy man to this trial - another proof that Satan is under the control of the Almighty, and acts only as he is “permitted” to act in tempting and trying the good. And touch his bone - See the note at Job 1:11. Afflict his body so as to endanger his life. The words “bone” and “flesh” denote the whole…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5strike his flesh and bones: People once believed bones were the source of health.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-81. a day--appointed for the angels giving an account of their ministry to God. The words "to present himself before the Lord" occur here, though not in Job 1:6, as Satan has now a special report to make as to Job.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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