KJV King James Version
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
WEB World English Bible
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
ASV American Standard Version
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And his wife saith to him, ‘Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.’
Surrounding context — Job 2
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.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
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Job 2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.Job 2:3And 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.Malachi 3:14Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?2 Kings 6:33And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?1 Kings 11:4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.Job 21:14-15Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.Genesis 3:12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest [to be] with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
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