9His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"


In Context

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.

8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

9 His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"

10 He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?" In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

11 When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Job 2:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:9And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9Then his wife said to him, |Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9Then said his wife to him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse God, and die.