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Then[a] Satan[b] answered him and said, “Skin for skin! All that that[c] man has he will give for his life. But stretch out[d] your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether[e] he will curse[f] you to your face.”[g]

So[h] Yahweh said to Satan,[i]All right,[j] he is in your power.[k] Only spare his life.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:4 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:4 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  3. Job 2:4 Literally “the”
  4. Job 2:5 Or “please”
  5. Job 2:5 Literally “if not”
  6. Job 2:5 Literally “bless”—negative meaning by context
  7. Job 2:5 Hebrew “your faces”
  8. Job 2:6 Literally “And it happened the/one day”
  9. Job 2:6 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  10. Job 2:6 Literally “Look”
  11. Job 2:6 Literally “hand”