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Job 2:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But stretch out your hand and strike  his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’

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But stretch out your hand and strike  everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.’


Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for  all of them. For Job thought, ‘Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.’  This was Job’s regular practice.


And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.


They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upwards, will curse their king and their God.


His wife said to him, ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ’


David said to God, ‘Wasn’t I the one who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Lord my God, please let your hand be against me and against my father’s family, but don’t let the plague be against your people.’


Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say, The salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have now come, because the accuser  of our brothers and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been thrown down.


Her son cursed and blasphemed the Name,  and they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith, a daughter of Dibri of the tribe of Dan.  )


‘Skin for skin! ’ Satan answered the Lord. ‘A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.


‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘he is in your power; only spare his life.’


These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,


‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘everything he owns is in your power. However, do not lay a hand on Job himself.’ So Satan left the Lord’s presence.





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