Job 2:5
But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
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- Job 1:11 : 11 But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
- 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.
- Lev 24:15 : 15 Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites,‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,
- 1 Chr 21:17 : 17 David said to God,“Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! As for these sheep– what have they done? O LORD my God, attack me and my family, but remove the plague from your people!”
- Job 2:9 : 9 Then his wife said to him,“Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
- Job 19:20-21 : 20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long. 4 For day and night you tormented me; you tried to destroy me in the intense heat of summer.(Selah)
- Ps 38:2-7 : 2 For your arrows pierce me, and your hand presses me down. 3 My whole body is sick because of your judgment; I am deprived of health because of my sin. 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear. 5 My wounds are infected and starting to smell, because of my foolish sins. 6 I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning. 7 For I am overcome with shame and my whole body is sick.
- Ps 39:10 : 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
- 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.
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- Job 1:7-126 verses90%
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.
11 But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”
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 2:6-94 verses85%
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!”
- Job 2:1-44 verses84%
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!
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14 Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?
- Exod 4:6-72 verses72%
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!
7 He said,“Put your hand back into your robe.” So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe– there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!
- Job 15:25-262 verses71%
25 for he stretches out his hand against God, and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
26 defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!
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13 when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?
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4 ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.
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8 If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight. Do not do it again!
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22 It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.
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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.
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5 But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,
- Job 19:20-212 verses69%
20 My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.
21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.
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6 Appoint an evil man to testify against him! May an accuser stand at his right side!
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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?”
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24 The Contrast With the Past“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
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21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
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26 And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God,
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13 It’s like the old proverb says:‘From evil people evil proceeds.’ But my hand will not be against you.
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11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
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25 then his flesh is restored like a youth’s; he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.
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11 His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.
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22 then let my arm fall from the shoulder, let my arm be broken off at the socket.
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13 It eats away parts of his skin; the most terrible death devours his limbs.
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18 He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.
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14 The LORD God said to the serpent,“Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the cattle and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
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18 For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
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4 But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
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11 So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.