Job 2:5
What does Job 2:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 2:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
KJV
King James Version · 1611But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh--if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!
Context
Cross references
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.
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