Job 1:11

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But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

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  • Job 2:5 : 5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
  • Job 19:21 : 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.
  • Rev 16:11 : 11 They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their sufferings and because of their sores, but nevertheless they still refused to repent of their deeds.
  • Rev 16:21 : 21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people, but they blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it was so horrendous.
  • Gen 26:11 : 11 So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
  • Job 1:12 : 12 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
  • Job 1:21 : 21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
  • Job 2:9 : 9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
  • Job 4:5 : 5 But now the same thing comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are terrified.
  • Ps 105:15 : 15 saying,“Don’t touch my chosen ones! Don’t harm my prophets!”
  • Isa 5:25 : 25 So the LORD is furious with his people; he lifts his hand and strikes them. The mountains shake, and corpses lie like manure in the middle of the streets. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 They will pass through the land destitute and starving. Their hunger will make them angry, and they will curse their king and their God as they look upward.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  • Mal 3:13-14 : 13 Resistance to the Lord through Self-sufficiency“You have criticized me sharply,” says the LORD,“but you ask,‘How have we criticized you?’ 14 You have said,‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD of Heaven’s Armies?
  • Rev 16:9 : 9 Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory.

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  • Job 2:1-9
    9 verses
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    1 Satan’s Additional Charge Again the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also arrived among them to present himself before the LORD.

    2 And the LORD said to Satan,“Where do you come from?” Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

    3 Then the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”

    4 But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!

    5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

    6 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”

    7 Job’s Integrity in Suffering So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and he afflicted Job with a malignant ulcer from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

    8 Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

    9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

  • 12 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

  • Job 1:6-10
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    84%

    6 Satan’s Accusation of Job Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD– and Satan also arrived among them.

    7 The LORD said to Satan,“Where have you come from?” And Satan answered the LORD,“From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it.”

    8 So the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

    9 Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God?

    10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

  • Job 15:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 Distress and anguish terrify him; they prevail against him like a king ready to launch an attack,

    25 for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,

  • 13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • 15 For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with plague, and you would have been destroyed from the earth.

  • 5 But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

  • 20 Curses by Disease and Drought“The LORD will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

  • 3 I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, so that all the families of the earth may receive blessing through you.”

  • 6 Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!

  • 1 II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends(3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

  • 22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

  • 11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

  • 6 The LORD also said to him,“Put your hand into your robe.” So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out– there was his hand, leprous like snow!

  • 13 It’s like the old proverb says:‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.

  • 21 Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • 17 He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

  • 4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

  • Job 1:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”

    22 In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.

  • 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

  • 13 So do not say,‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

  • Job 42:7-8
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    7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

    8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”

  • 2 The LORD said to Satan,“May the LORD rebuke you, Satan! May the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Isn’t this man like a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

  • 9 You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me– this whole nation is guilty.

  • 6 So now, please come and curse this nation for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I will prevail so that we may conquer them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

  • 8 If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight. Do not do it again!

  • 37 For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”

  • 8 How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

  • 14 if iniquity is in your hand– put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

  • 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him.

  • 1 Job’s Confession Then Job answered the LORD: