Job 2:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

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  • Job 2:3 : 3 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
  • Gen 3:12 : 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For 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 Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah; why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?
  • Job 1:11 : 11 But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

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  • 10But 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.

  • Job 2:3-8
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    3And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

    4And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

    5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

    6And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

    7So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

    8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

  • Job 3:1-2
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    1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

    2And Job answered and said:

  • Job 1:8-11
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    8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.

    9Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

    10Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

    11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

  • Job 9:1-2
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

  • Job 19:1-2
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

  • 10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • Job 1:20-22
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    20Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;

    21and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

    22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

  • 13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 3Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

  • 1Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,

  • 7Now therefore restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1And Job again took up his parable, and said,

    2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 1And Job again took up his parable, and said,

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

    15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

  • 9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

  • Job 42:6-7
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    6Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.

    7And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 18So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

  • 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

  • 9he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

  • 2Thinkest thou this to be [thy] right, [Or] sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God's,

  • 20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

  • 23But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

  • 36Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.

  • 31Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

  • 6Notwithstanding my right I am [accounted] a liar; My wound is incurable, [though I am] without transgression.