Job 2:9

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His wife said to him, 'Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!'

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  • Job 2:3 : 3 Then the LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still holds fast to his integrity, even though you incited me against him to destroy him without cause.'
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face!
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.' 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Mal 3:14 : 14 You have said, 'Serving God is futile. What profit is there in keeping his requirements or walking mournfully before the Lord of Hosts?
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.
  • Gen 3:12 : 12 The man said, 'The woman you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate.'
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 As Solomon grew older, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his father had been.
  • 2 Kgs 6:33 : 33 While he was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. The king said, "This disaster is from the LORD. Why should I wait any longer for the LORD?"
  • Job 1:11 : 11 'But stretch out your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.'

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  • 10 But he replied, 'You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?' In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

  • Job 2:3-8
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    3 Then the LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still holds fast to his integrity, even though you incited me against him to destroy him without cause.'

    4 Satan answered the LORD, 'Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has for his own life.'

    5 But stretch out your hand and strike his bone and flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face!

    6 The LORD said to Satan, 'Very well, he is in your hands; only spare his life.'

    7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

    8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

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

    2 And Job answered and said:

  • Job 1:8-11
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    8 The LORD said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth—a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and turns away from evil.'

    9 Satan replied to the LORD, 'Does Job fear God for nothing?'

    10 'Haven't you placed a hedge around him and his household and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions have increased in the land.'

    11 'But stretch out your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse you to your face.'

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

    2 Truly, I know this is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

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

    2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • 10 then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • Job 1:20-22
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    71%

    20 At this, Job got up, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground in worship.

    21 He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be blessed.'

    22 In all of this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 5 Far be it from me to justify you. Until my dying breath, I will not set aside my integrity.

  • 1 Then Job responded and said:

  • 3 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 1 Then Job answered the LORD and said:

  • 7 Now return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, you can be sure that you and all who belong to you will die.'

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 And Job continued speaking his discourse, saying:

    2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 1 Job continued speaking further, saying:

  • Job 13:14-15
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    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

    15 Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • 9 May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

  • Job 42:6-7
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    6 Therefore, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

    7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'

  • 1 Then Job replied and said:

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.

  • 14 Yet you ask, 'Why?' Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant.

  • 9 "No one in this house is greater than I am. He has not withheld anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"

  • 2 Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?

  • 20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

  • 23 But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things, nor let us hear such things now."

  • 36 I wish that Job might be tested to the end for answering like wicked men.

  • 31 You would plunge me into a pit, and even my clothes would abhor me.

  • 6 Though I am innocent, I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I have committed no offense.