5But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."


In Context

2 And the Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the Lord , "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."

3 Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."

4 "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life.

5 But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."

6 The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

Job 2:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:5gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:5Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh — if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:5But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.