Job 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

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  • Esth 7:3-4 : 3 Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request: 4 For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.
  • Isa 2:20-21 : 20 In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places; 21 To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
  • Jer 41:8 : 8 But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.
  • Matt 6:25 : 25 So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?
  • Matt 16:26 : 26 For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
  • Acts 27:18-19 : 18 And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship; 19 And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.
  • Phil 3:8-9 : 8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward, 9 And be seen in him, not having my righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

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    5But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

    6And the Lord said to the Satan, See, he is in your hands, only do not take his life.

    7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

    8And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

    9And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

    10And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

  • Job 1:6-12
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    6And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

    7And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

    8And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

    9And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?

    10Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?

    11But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

    12And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.

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    1And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.

    2And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.

    3And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

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    1Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

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    3Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

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  • Luke 4:6-7
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  • Job 6:1
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    20Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

    21With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

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    36May Job be tested to the end, because his answers have been like those of evil men.

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    7Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

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    37And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

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    1And Job again took up the word and said,

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    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

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    8And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.