Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.” New Living Translation “All right, do with him as you please,” the LORD said to Satan. “But spare his life.” English Standard Version And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.” Berean Standard Bible “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” King James Bible And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. New King James Version And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.” New American Standard Bible So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.” NASB 1995 So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.” NASB 1977 So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life.” Legacy Standard Bible So Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.” Amplified Bible So the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.” Christian Standard Bible “Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.” Holman Christian Standard Bible “Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.” American Standard Version And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And LORD JEHOVAH said to Satan: “Now he is handed over into your hands, only save his life!” Brenton Septuagint Translation And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to thee; only save his life. Contemporary English Version "All right!" the LORD replied. "Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him." Douay-Rheims Bible And the Lord said to Satan: Behold be is in thy hand, but yet save his life. English Revised Version And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; only spare his life. GOD'S WORD® Translation The LORD told Satan, "He is in your power, but you must spare his life!" Good News Translation So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power, but you are not to kill him." International Standard Version Then the LORD told Satan, "Very well then, he is under your control. Just preserve his life." JPS Tanakh 1917 And the LORD said unto Satan: 'Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.' Literal Standard Version And YHWH says to Satan, “Behold, he [is] in your hand; only take care of his life.” Majority Standard Bible “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” New American Bible And the LORD said to the satan, “He is in your power; only spare his life.” NET Bible So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life." New Revised Standard Version The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.” New Heart English Bible The LORD said to Satan, "Look, he is in your power. Only preserve his life." Webster's Bible Translation And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; but save his life. World English Bible Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.” Young's Literal Translation And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, 'Lo, he is in thy hand; only his life take care of.' Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job Loses His Health…5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” 6“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” 7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.… Cross References 2 Corinthians 12:7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Job 2:5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face." Job 2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. Treasury of Scripture And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; but save his life. Behold. Job 1:12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD. but. Job 38:10,11 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, … Psalm 65:7 Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people. Luke 8:29-33 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) … his life. Jump to Previous Adversary Care Hand Hands Life Power Satan Save SpareJump to Next Adversary Care Hand Hands Life Power Satan Save SpareJob 2 1. Satan, appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.7. He afflicts him with sore boils. 9. Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God. 11. His three friends console with him in silence. (6) But save his life.--God's faithfulness cannot fail even if, as Satan hints, Job's should do so (2Timothy 2:13). There was one who cared for Job's life more than he cared for it himself.Verse 6. - And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold he is in thine hand; i.e. "he is in thy power, to do with him as thou pleasest" - except in one respect. Again it is strongly marked that Satan's power is under God's control, and extends only so far as God shows. But save his life; rather, only spare his life (Revised Version). The didactic purposes for which God was allowing his faithful servant to be tried in the furnace of affliction would have been frustrated by Job's removal from the earth. Individually he might equally well have been compensated in another world; but then the lesson of his example to living men, and the lesson of his story to all future generations of mankind, would have been lost. Besides, God but rarely, in the old world, gave a faithful servant, still in the full vigour of life (Job 42:16, 17), "over unto death" (Psalm 118:18). Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Very well,”הִנּ֣וֹ (hin·nōw) Interjection | third person masculine singular Strong's 2005: Lo! behold! said וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say the LORD יְהוָ֛ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH to Satan. הַשָּׂטָ֖ן (haś·śā·ṭān) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7854: An opponent -- Satan, the arch-enemy of good “He is in your hands, בְיָדֶ֑ךָ (ḇə·yā·ḏe·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 3027: A hand but אַ֖ךְ (’aḵ) Adverb Strong's 389: A particle of affirmation, surely you must spare שְׁמֹֽר׃ (šə·mōr) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to his life.” נַפְשׁ֥וֹ (nap̄·šōw) Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion Links Job 2:6 NIVJob 2:6 NLT Job 2:6 ESV Job 2:6 NASB Job 2:6 KJV Job 2:6 BibleApps.com Job 2:6 Biblia Paralela Job 2:6 Chinese Bible Job 2:6 French Bible Job 2:6 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 2:6 Yahweh said to Satan Behold he (Jb) |
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