KJV King James Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 2:5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
WEB World English Bible
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
ASV American Standard Version
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
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!’
Surrounding context — Job 2
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 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.
4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he [is] in thine hand; but save his life.
7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אוּלָם֙H199 · u.lambutשְֽׁלַֽח־H7971 · sha.lachto send: departנָ֣אH4994 · napleaseיָֽדְךָ֔H3027 · yadhandוְגַ֥עH5060 · na.gato touchאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)עַצְמ֖וֹH6106 · e.tsemboneוְאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)בְּשָׂר֑וֹH1320 · ba.sarfleshאִם־H518 · imifלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)פָּנֶ֖יךָH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeיְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃H1288 · ba.rakhto bless
Cross-references
Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.Job 1:5And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.Leviticus 24:15And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.Job 19:20-21My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.Psalm 32:3-4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.Psalm 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.Psalm 38:2-7For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.Job 2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.1 Chronicles 21:17And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father’s house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
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