But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Parallel translations
- WEB But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”
- KJV But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- NKJV But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
- NASB But reach out with Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will certainly curse You to Your face.”
- NLT But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”
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Quick answer
Satan dares God to strike Job's possessions, predicting Job will curse Him. The wager over Job's loyalty is set.
Overview
Satan asserts that calamity will expose Job's piety as fraudulent, claiming he will "renounce you to your face." The accusation is really against God, implying He cannot win genuine love. The narrative will refute this lie, and the cross of Christ supremely answers it, displaying a love for God that holds fast through utter loss.
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Cross-references · 16
- Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.
- Rev 16:11and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores; yet they did not repent of their deeds.
- Mal 3:13–14“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
- Rev 16:21And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
- Rev 16:9And the people were scorched by intense heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues; yet they did not repent and give Him glory.
- Gen 26:11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
- Job 1:12“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
- Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
- Isa 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
- Ps 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- Zech 2:8For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
- Job 2:9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
- Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
- Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Isa 5:25Therefore the anger of the LORD burns against His people; His hand is raised against them to strike them down. The mountains quake, and the corpses lay like refuse in the streets. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
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