Job 2:1-10

Satan Attacks Job's Health

1 Again ¹there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.

2 And the LORD said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."

3 And 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 ²holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him ³without reason."

4 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

5 But ⁴stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will ⁵curse you to your face."

6 And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life."

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome ⁶sores from ⁷the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

8 And he took ⁸a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in ⁹the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still ¹⁰hold fast your integrity? ¹¹Curse God and die."

10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the ¹²foolish women would speak. ¹³Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"^[a]¹⁴In all this Job did not ¹⁵sin with his lips.

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Job 2:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 2

This chapter gives an account of a second trial of Job's constancy and integrity, the time and occasion of it, Job 2:1-3; the motion made for it by Satan, which being granted, he smote him from head to foot with sore boils, which he endured very patiently, Job 2:4-8; during which sad affliction he is urged by his wife to give up his integrity, which he bravely resisted, Job 2:9,10; and the chapter is concluded with an account of a visit of three of Job's friends, and of their conduct and behaviour towards him, Job 2:11-13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. Job 1:6
2. ver. 9; [Job 27:5, 6]
3. Job 9:17
4. Job 1:11
5. Job 1:5
6. Exodus 9:9; Leviticus 13:18; [Deuteronomy 28:27]
7. Deuteronomy 28:35; Isaiah 1:6
8. Job 41:30
9. Job 42:6; Ezekiel 27:30; Jonah 3:6; Matthew 11:21
10. ver. 3
11. [See ver. 5 above]
12. [Psalms 74:18, 22]
13. [James 5:10, 11]
14. Job 1:22
15. [Psalms 39:1]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or disaster; also verse 11

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