Job 2:1-7

Satan Attacks Job's Health

¹ Again _m there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. ² And the Lord said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Satan answered the Lord and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." ³ And the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still _n holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him _o without reason." ⁴ Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵ But _p stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will _q curse you to your face." ⁶ And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life."

⁷ So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome _r sores from _s the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

1. Cross References
   Job 1:6
   Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 2:9
   Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die.
   Job 27:5 - 6
   Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
   
3. Cross References
   Job 9:17
   For he crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.
   
4. Cross References
   Job 1:11
   But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.
   
5. Cross References
   Job 1:5
   And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did continually.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 9:9
   It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.
   Leviticus 13:18
   If there is in the skin of one's body a boil and it heals.
   Deuteronomy 28:27
   The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed.
   
7. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 28:35
   The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
   Isaiah 1:6
   From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.
   

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