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What does Job 2:5 mean?
"But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”"
— Job 2:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.”
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.”
Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
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