Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:35 : 35 The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
  • Job 30:30 : 30 My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 From the soles of your feet to your head, there is no spot that is unharmed. There are only bruises, cuts, and open wounds. They have not been cleansed or bandaged, nor have they been treated with olive oil.
  • Deut 28:27 : 27 The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, eczema, and scabies, all of which cannot be healed.
  • Exod 9:9-9 : 9 It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.” 10 So they took soot from a furnace and stood before Pharaoh, Moses threw it into the air, and it caused festering boils to break out on both people and animals. 11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for boils were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians.
  • Isa 3:17 : 17 So the Lord will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases; the LORD will make the front of their heads bald.”
  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 22:22 : 22 The LORD asked him,‘How?’ He replied,‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ The LORD said,‘Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.’
  • Job 7:5 : 5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
  • Job 30:17-19 : 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease. 18 With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic. 19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.