Job 2:5

New International Reader's Version

But now reach out your hand and strike his flesh and bones. Then I’m sure he will speak evil things against you. In fact, he’ll do it right in front of you.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:17

David said to God, “I ordered the fighting men to be counted. I’m the one who has sinned. I am the shepherd of these people. I’m the one who has done what is wrong. These people are like sheep. What have they done? Lord my God, punish me and my family. But don’t let this plague continue to strike your people.”

Job 1:11

But now reach out your hand and strike down everything he has. Then I’m sure he will speak evil things against you. In fact, he’ll do it right in front of you.”

Job 1:12

The Lord said to Satan, “All right. I am handing everything he has over to you. But do not touch the man himself.” Then Satan left the Lord and went on his way.

Job 1:5

The time for enjoying good food would end. Then Job would make plans for his children to be made pure and “clean.” He would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them. He would do it early in the morning. He would think, “Perhaps my children have sinned. Maybe they have spoken evil things against God in their hearts.” That’s what Job always did for his children when he felt they had sinned.

Job 2:4

Satan replied, “A man will give everything he has to save himself. So Job is willing to give up the lives of his family to save his own life.

Job 2:6

The Lord said to Satan, “All right. I am handing him over to you. But you must spare his life.”

Job 2:9

His wife said to him, “Are you still continuing to be faithful to the Lord? Speak evil things against him and die!”

Psalm 39:10

Please stop beating me. I’m about to die from the blows of your hand.

Isaiah 65:3

They are always making me very angry. They do it right in front of me. They offer sacrifices in the gardens of other gods. They burn incense on altars that are made out of bricks.

Isaiah 8:21

They will suffer and be hungry. They’ll wander through the land. When they are very hungry, they will become angry. They’ll look up toward heaven. They’ll ask for bad things to happen to their king and their God.

Leviticus 24:11

The son of the Israelite woman spoke evil things against the Lord by using a curse. So the people brought him to Moses. The name of the man’s mother was Shelomith. She was the daughter of Dibri. Dibri was from the tribe of Dan.

Leviticus 24:15

Say to the Israelites, ‘Anyone who curses me will be held accountable.

Revelation 12:10

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven. It said, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God have come. The authority of his Messiah has come. Satan, who brings charges against our brothers and sisters, has been thrown down. He brings charges against them in front of our God day and night.