Job 2:9
Good News Translation
His wife said to him, "You are still as faithful as ever, aren't you? Why don't you curse God and die?"

New Revised Standard Version
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die.”

Contemporary English Version
his wife asked, "Why do you still trust God? Why don't you curse him and die?"

New American Bible
Then his wife said to him, “Are you still holding to your innocence? Curse God and die!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

his wife.

Genesis 3:6,12 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat. . . .

1 Kings 11:4 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

retain.

Job 2:3 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Job 21:14,15 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. . . .

2 Kings 6:33 While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

curse God.

Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Job 1:11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Context
Job Loses His Health
8And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill. 9And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.10And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.…
Cross References
Leviticus 24:11
And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Job 2:8
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Job 2:10
And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Job 2:8
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