Job 2:5
Good News Translation
But now suppose you hurt his body--he will curse you to your face!"

New Revised Standard Version
But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

Contemporary English Version
Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face."

New American Bible
But put forth your hand and touch his bone and his flesh. Then surely he will curse you to your face.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

put forth.

Job 1:11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Job 19:20,21 The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth. . . .

1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said to God: Am not I he that commanded the people to be numbered? It is I that have sinned: it is I that have done the evil: but as for this flock, what hath it deserved? O Lord my God, let thy hand be turned, I beseech thee, upon me, and upon my father's house: and let not thy people be destroyed.

Psalm 32:3,4 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Psalm 38:2-7 For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me. . . .

Psalm 39:10 Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:

He will curse.

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

Job 1:5,11 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days. . . .

Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel: The man that curseth his God, shall bear his sin:

Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.

Context
Job Loses His Health
4And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life: 5But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.6And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.…
Cross References
Revelation 12:10
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying: Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ: because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth, who accused them before our God day and night.

Leviticus 24:11
And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Job 1:11
But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Job 2:4
And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

Job 2:6
And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

Job 19:20
The flesh being consumed, my bone hath cleaved to my skin, and nothing but lips are left about my teeth.

Isaiah 65:3
A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Job 2:4
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