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So[a] Yahweh asked[b] Satan,[c] “Have you considered[d] my servant Job? Indeed,[e] there is no one like him on the earth—a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness even though[f] you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing.”

Then[g] Satan[h] answered him and said, “Skin for skin! All that that[i] man has he will give for his life. But stretch out[j] your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether[k] he will curse[l] you to your face.”[m]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:3 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 2:3 Literally “said to”
  3. Job 2:3 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  4. Job 2:3 Literally “set your heart”
  5. Job 2:3 Or “For” or “Because”
  6. Job 2:3 Hebrew “and”
  7. Job 2:4 Hebrew “And”
  8. Job 2:4 Hebrew “the accuser,” or “the adversary”
  9. Job 2:4 Literally “the”
  10. Job 2:5 Or “please”
  11. Job 2:5 Literally “if not”
  12. Job 2:5 Literally “bless”—negative meaning by context
  13. Job 2:5 Hebrew “your faces”