Job 2:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Then Satan answered the Lord, Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Common English Bible

⁴ The Adversary responded to the LORD, “Skin for skin—people will give up everything they have in exchange for their lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.

Job 2:4 Cross References

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Jeremiah 41:8

But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the fields.” So he refrained and did not kill them along with their companions.

Job 2:3

The Lord said to the accuser, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and turns away from evil. He still persists in his integrity, although you incited me against him, to destroy him for no reason.”

Job 2:5

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

Genesis 47:17

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys. That year he supplied them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

Genesis 47:19

Shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. We with our land will become slaves to Pharaoh; just give us seed, so that we may live and not die and that the land may not become desolate.”

Joshua 9:24

They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”

Proverbs 13:8

Wealth is a ransom for a person’s life, but a poor person pays no attention to a rebuke.

Luke 12:23

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.