So Abimelech warned all the people, ‘Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.’
Job 1:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But put forth Your hand now and touch all that he has, and he will curse You to Your face. American Standard Version (1901) But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face. Common English Bible But stretch out your hand and strike all he has. He will certainly curse you to your face.” Catholic Public Domain Version But extend your hand a little, and touch all that he possesses, and see if he still praises you to your face." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath; and see if he blesseth thee not to thy face. |
So Abimelech warned all the people, ‘Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.’
‘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.
saying: Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will leave this life. , The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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.
Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for God’s hand has struck me.
Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’
But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’
‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘he is in your power; only spare his life.’
So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.
His wife said to him, ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ’
But now that this has happened to you, you have become exhausted. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Therefore the Lord’s anger burned against his people. He raised his hand against them and struck them; the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like rubbish in the streets. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.
These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,
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.
For the Lord of Armies says this: ‘In pursuit of his glory, he sent me against the nations plundering you, for whoever touches you touches the pupil of my eye.
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.
and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they did not repent of their works.
Enormous hailstones, each weighing about fifty kilograms, fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.
and people were scorched by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God, who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.