Job 2:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. ”

• Job 2:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Then said his wife unto him - Some remarkable additions are made by the ancient versions to this passage. The Chaldee renders it, “and “Dinah” ( דינה dı̂ynâh ), his wife, said to him.” The aut...

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• Job 2:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Then said his (k) wife unto him, Dost thou (l) still retain thine integrity? (m) curse God, and die. (k) Satan uses the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam. (l) Meaning, what do you...

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• Job 2:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Narrative of the Second Conversation between Yahweh and the Satan and its Issues. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undese...

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• Job 2:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Dost thou... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. retain . remain firm in.

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• Job 2:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Then said his wife - To this verse the Septuagint adds the following words: "Much time having elapsed, his wif...

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• Job 2:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Dost thou still retain thine integrity? &c.— The word תם tam, is the same in chap. Job 27:5 and there rendered integrity. God forbid that I should justify you, says Job, in answer to the...

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• Job 2:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Curse God - rather, renounce God. See the notes at Job 1:1-22 ; Job 5:1-27 , (Umbreit.) Gesenius tra...

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• Job 2:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prologue (continued) Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him.

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• Job 2:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Then said his wife. — Thus it is that a man’s foes are they of his own household ( Micah 7:6 ; Matthew 10:36 , &c.). The worst trial of all is when those nearest to us, instead of strengthenin...

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• Job 2:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1-13 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back...

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• Job 2:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Among the Ashes” Job 2:1-13 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his...

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• Job 2:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had ta...

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• Job 2:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (9) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. (10) But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good...

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• Job 2:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  JOB’S TWO FOES AND THREE FRIENDS ‘Satan … his wife … Job’s three friends.’ Job 2:7 ; Job 2:9 ; Job 2:11 The outward calamities from which Job first suffered are narrated in chapter 1. Affl...

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• Job 2:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then said his wife to him ,.... The Jews g, who affect to know everything, say, that Job's wife was Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, as the Targum, but this is not very likely; however, we may observe...

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• Job 2:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Ver. 9. Then said his wife ] Was this Dinah, Jacob's only daughter? So the Jewish doctors say; and that Job...

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• Job 2:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then said his wife Whom Satan had spared, that she might be a troubler and tempter to him. For it is his policy to send his temptations by those that are dear to us. We ought, therefore, carefully...

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• Job 2:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter...

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• Job 2:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Job Smitten with Disease; The Affliction of Job. B. C. 1520.       7 So went Satan forth fro...

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• Job 2:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The devil spared his wife with cruel intent to be the instrument of his temptations, and the aggravation of Job's misery, by unnatural unkindness to him, which is declared Job 19:17 , and elsewh...

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• Job 2:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  Notes Job 2:7 . “ Smote Job with sore boils .” The Septuagint and Vulgate, followed by MARTIN and DIODATI in their French and Italian versions, render the words which describe Job’s disease, “a b...

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• Job 2:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 2:1 . There was a day when the sons of God &c. As on the former chapter, Job 2:6 . Job 2:4 . Skin for skin. Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society...

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• Job 2:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  And Satan came also among them. Spiritual agencies, good and evil, in sickness This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the streng...

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• Job 2:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 2:1-18 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1-18 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, an...

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• Job 2:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Then said his wife, whose trust in God was evidently not as strongly founded as that of the sufferer, unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? He was clinging to a virtue which, as she sup...

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• Job 2:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 11:4 ; 2 Kings 6:33 ; Genesis 3:12 ; Genesis 3:6 ; Job 1:11 ; Job 2:3 ; Job 2:5 ; Job 21:14 ; Job 21:15 ; Malachi 3:14

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• Job 2:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Heaven's Controversy Concerning Job Job 2:1-9 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered...

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• Job 2:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Then said his wife — Whom Satan spared, to be a troubler and tempter to him. It is his policy, to send his temptations by the hands of those that are dear to us. We must therefore carefully watch,...

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