Job 2:5

Job chapter 2 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

King James Version · 1611

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

American Standard Version · 1901

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

v.4And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

v.5This passage

v.6And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Isaiah 8:21
And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.
Job 19:20
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
1 Chronicles 21:17
And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.
Job 1:11
But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Job 1:5
And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.