So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
Parallel translations
- KJV So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- BSB So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- NKJV So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
- NASB Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
- NLT So Satan left the Lord’s presence, and he struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot.
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Quick answer
Satan strikes Job with painful sores over his whole body. Job now endures excruciating physical suffering.
Overview
From head to foot Job is covered in agonizing sores, the third great blow following loss of wealth and children. The affliction is total and relentless, testing his faith to its limit. The scene of an innocent man wracked with bodily torment foreshadows the suffering of the sinless Christ.
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Cross-references · 10
- Deut 28:35Yahweh will strike you in the knees and in the legs with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
- Isa 1:6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.
- Deut 28:27Yahweh will strike you with the boils of Egypt, with the tumors, with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
- 1 Kgs 22:22Yahweh said to him, ‘How?’ He said, ‘I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ He said, ‘You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.’
- Exod 9:9–11It shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal, throughout all the land of Egypt.”
- Rev 16:11and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. They didn’t repent of their works.
- Job 30:17–19In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
- Isa 3:17therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”
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