Job 2:7-10

Job’s Blameless Behavior

7 So Satan went out from {Yahweh's presence}, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head.

8 {So} he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? {Curse} God and die."

10 So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 2:7-10 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.

Footnotes

• [a] Hebrew "And"
• [b] Hebrew "the accuser," or "the adversary"
• [c] Literally "the faces of Yahweh"
• [d] Hebrew "And"
• [e] Hebrew "And"
• [f] Literally "Bless"--negative meaning by context
• [g] Hebrew "And"
• [h] Or "and"