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What does Job 2:6 mean?

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

— Job 2:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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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.”

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

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

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

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So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

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He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

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Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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