🌪️WEB · Job 2:3

What does Job 2:3 mean?

"Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”"

— Job 2:3 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

2

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

3

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

4

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

5

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

6

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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