Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he'll curse you to your face, won't he?"

New American Standard Bible

However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

But put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh [and severely afflict him]; and he will curse You to Your face.”

Bible in Basic English

But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

Darby Translation

but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!

Julia Smith Translation

But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face.

King James 2000

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

Modern King James verseion

But indeed put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But lay thine hand upon him, touch him once upon the bone and flesh, and, I hold, he shall curse thee to thy face."

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

The Emphasized Bible

In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh, - verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.

Webster

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

World English Bible

But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

Youngs Literal Translation

Yet, 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!'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
אוּלם 
'uwlam 
Usage: 18

שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

now, and touch
נגע 
Naga` 
Usage: 150

עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

and his flesh
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

and he will curse
בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Job 2:5

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Sin

Smith

Context Readings

The Adversary's Attack On Job's Person

4 Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health. 5 However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he'll curse you to your face, won't he?" 6 Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life."


Cross References

Job 1:11

However, stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face."

Job 1:5

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.

Leviticus 24:15

Moreover, tell the Israelis that anyone who curses his God will bear the consequences of his own sin,

1 Chronicles 21:17

David told God, "Wasn't I the one who ordered the census of the population? Wasn't it I who sinned and acted wickedly? Now as for these sheep, what have they done? LORD God, please let your hand be against me and my ancestral household, but don't let your people be ravaged by plague!"

Job 2:9

Then his wife told him, "Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!"

Job 19:20-21

I'm a pile of skin and bones; I have barely escaped by the skin of my teeth."

Psalm 32:3-4

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:2-7

because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me.

Psalm 39:10

Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand.

Isaiah 8:21

"They'll pass through the land, while greatly distressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they'll become enraged, and they'll curse their king and their god. They'll turn their faces upwards,

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