But reach out with Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will certainly 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.
- BSB But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- NKJV But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely 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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Job 2:5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
- Job 19:21“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.
- Rev 16:11and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.
- Mal 3:13–14“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
- Rev 16:21Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.
- Rev 16:9People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
- Gen 26:11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
- Job 1:12Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
- Job 1:5It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, 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.” Job did so continually.
- Isa 8:21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
- Ps 105:15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- Zech 2:8For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
- Job 2:9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
- Job 4:5But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
- Job 1:21He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”
- Isa 5:25Therefore Yahweh’s anger burns against his people, and he has stretched out his hand against them, and has struck them. The mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is still stretched out.
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