Job 2:5
New International Version
But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

New Living Translation
But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”

English Standard Version
But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

Berean Standard Bible
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

King James Bible
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

New King James Version
But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”

New American Standard Bible
However, reach out with Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!”

NASB 1995
“However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”

NASB 1977
“However, put forth Thy hand, now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse Thee to Thy face.”

Legacy Standard Bible
However, send forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You in Your face.”

Amplified Bible
But put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh [and severely afflict him]; and he will curse You to Your face.”

Christian Standard Bible
But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

American Standard Version
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But reach your hand and touch his flesh or his bone, and he will curse you to your face!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to thy face.

Contemporary English Version
Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face."

Douay-Rheims Bible
gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.

English Revised Version
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bones. I bet he'll curse you to your face."

Good News Translation
But now suppose you hurt his body--he will curse you to your face!"

International Standard Version
However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he'll curse you to your face, won't he?"

JPS Tanakh 1917
But put forth Thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy face.'

Literal Standard Version
Yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike to his bone and to his flesh—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”

Majority Standard Bible
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

New American Bible
But put forth your hand and touch his bone and his flesh. Then surely he will curse you to your face.”

NET Bible
But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!"

New Revised Standard Version
But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

New Heart English Bible
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."

Webster's Bible Translation
But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

World English Bible
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

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!'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Job Loses His Health
4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life. 5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” 6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”…

Cross References
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down--he who accuses them day and night before our God.

Leviticus 24:11
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother's name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Job 1:11
But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face."

Job 2:4
"Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:6
"Very well," said the LORD to Satan. "He is in your hands, but you must spare his life."

Job 19:20
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Isaiah 65:3
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,


Treasury of Scripture

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

put forth.

Job 1:11
But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Job 19:20,21
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth…

1 Chronicles 21:17
And 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.

He will curse.

Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

Job 1:5,11
And 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 24:15
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

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Job 2
1. Satan, appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.
7. He afflicts him with sore boils.
9. Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.
11. His three friends console with him in silence.














Verse 5. - But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; i.e. "his person" - any part of his body. And he will curse thee to thy face (see the comment on Job 11:11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But
אוּלָם֙ (’ū·lām)
Conjunction
Strong's 199: However, on the contrary

stretch out
שְֽׁלַֽח־ (šə·laḥ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

Your hand
יָֽדְךָ֔ (yā·ḏə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

and strike
וְגַ֥ע (wə·ḡa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

his flesh
בְּשָׂר֑וֹ (bə·śā·rōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

and bones,
עַצְמ֖וֹ (‘aṣ·mōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

and he will surely
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

curse You
יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃ (yə·ḇā·ră·ḵe·kā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

Your face.”
פָּנֶ֖יךָ (pā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face


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