Job 2:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Job 1:11 : 11 But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.
  • Lev 24:15 : 15 And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.
  • 1 Chr 21:17 : 17 And David said to God, Was it not I who gave the order for the people to be numbered? It is I who have done the sin and the great wrong; but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand, O Lord God, be lifted up against me and against my family, but not against your people to send disease on them.
  • Job 2:9 : 9 And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
  • Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth. 21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:2-7 : 2 For your arrows have gone into my flesh, and I am crushed under the weight of your hand. 3 My flesh is wasted because of your wrath; and there is no peace in my bones because of my sin. 4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength. 5 My wounds are poisoned and evil-smelling, because of my foolish behaviour. 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day. 7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 1:7-12
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    90%

    7 And 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.

    8 And 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?

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

    10 Have 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?

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

    12 And 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.

  • Job 2:6-9
    4 verses
    85%

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

    7 And 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.

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

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

  • Job 2:1-4
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    84%

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

    2 And 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.

    3 And 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.

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

  • Job 13:14
    72%

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Exod 4:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.

    7 And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)

  • Job 15:25-26
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    71%

    25 Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

    26 Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

  • Job 15:13
    71%

    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Lam 3:4
    71%

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

  • Job 41:8
    70%

    8 They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.

  • Job 27:22
    70%

    22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

  • Exod 9:15
    69%

    15 For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:

  • Job 11:5
    69%

    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

  • Job 19:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20 My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

    21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

  • Ps 109:6
    69%

    6 Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.

  • Zech 3:2
    69%

    2 And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?

  • Job 30:24
    69%

    24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • Job 33:21
    69%

    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Job 19:26
    69%

    26 And ... without my flesh I will see God;

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    68%

    13 May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

  • Job 10:11
    68%

    11 By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

  • Job 33:25
    68%

    25 Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;

  • Job 20:11
    68%

    11 His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.

  • Job 31:22
    68%

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Job 18:13
    68%

    13 His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.

  • Ps 109:18
    68%

    18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

  • Gen 3:14
    68%

    14 And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:

  • Job 5:18
    68%

    18 For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

  • Job 15:4
    68%

    4 Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

  • Gen 4:11
    68%

    11 And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;