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Job 2:5-7
Lexham English Bible
Job 2:5-7
Lexham English Bible
5 But stretch out[a] your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether[b] he will curse[c] you to your face.”[d]
6 So[e] Yahweh said to Satan,[f] “All right,[g] he is in your power.[h] Only spare his life.”
Job’s Blameless Behavior
7 So[i] Satan[j] went out from Yahweh’s presence,[k] and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.
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- Job 2:5 Or “please”
- Job 2:5 Literally “if not”
- Job 2:5 Literally “bless”—negative meaning by context
- Job 2:5 Hebrew “your faces”
- Job 2:6 Literally “And it happened the/one day”
- Job 2:6 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:6 Literally “Look”
- Job 2:6 Literally “hand”
- Job 2:7 Hebrew “And”
- Job 2:7 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
- Job 2:7 Literally “the faces of Yahweh”
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