Job 2:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 2:4 Cross References

Genesis 47:17

And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.

Genesis 47:19

wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

Job 2:3

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and art upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil: And he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Job 2:5

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

Proverbs 13:8

The ransom of a man's life is his riches: But the poor heareth no threatening.

Jeremiah 41:8

But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

Luke 12:23

For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.

Joshua 9:24

And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.