Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 2

51 catchwords370 parallels

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Job 2 . 1 , Satan appearing again before God , obtains further leave to tempt Job; Job 2 . 7 , He smites him with sore boils; Job 2 . 9 , Job reproves his wife , who moved him to curse God; Job 2 . 11 , His three friends console with him in silence.

Job 2:1

On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

Job 2:1 · BSB

Again5 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Job 2:2

“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

Job 2:2 · BSB

From whence1 parallel

From going4 parallels

Reciprocal9 parallels

Job 2:3

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

Job 2:3 · BSB

Hast thou7 parallels

an upright5 parallels

holdeth9 parallels

thou movedst1 parallel

destroy him1 parallel

Heb. swallow him up

without2 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:4 · BSB

all that10 parallels

Reciprocal26 parallels

Job 2:5

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Job 2:5 · BSB

put forth8 parallels

He will curse5 parallels

Reciprocal13 parallels

Job 2:6

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

Job 2:6 · BSB

Behold1 parallel

save11 parallels

Reciprocal14 parallels

but or , only

his life By naphsho , "his soul ," Maimonides understands "his mind ," or intellectual powers.

Job 2:7

So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

Job 2:7 · BSB

So went1 parallel

sore boils6 parallels

Shechin ra , supposed to be the Judham , or black leprosy , of the Arabs , termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks , from its rendering the skin , like that of the elephant , scabrous , dark coloured , and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching

from the sole2 parallels

Reciprocal24 parallels

Job 2:8

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

Job 2:8 · BSB

took him5 parallels

he sat6 parallels

Reciprocal17 parallels

Job 2:9

Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Job 2:9 · BSB

his wife3 parallels

retain5 parallels

curse God2 parallels

Reciprocal12 parallels

Job 2:10

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

Job 2:10 · BSB

Thou speakest3 parallels

as one8 parallels

shall we receive9 parallels

In all this5 parallels

Reciprocal23 parallels

Job 2:11

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

Job 2:11 · BSB

friends8 parallels

Temanite5 parallels

Shuhite4 parallels

to come7 parallels

to comfort2 parallels

Reciprocal10 parallels

Job 2:12

When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Job 2:12 · BSB

knew him4 parallels

their voice6 parallels

they rent1 parallel

sprinkled dust upon4 parallels

Reciprocal14 parallels

Job 2:13

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

Job 2:13 · BSB

they sat4 parallels

seven days3 parallels

none spake2 parallels

Reciprocal7 parallels

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