(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 at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
The temptation is carried up to the highest point of provocation, when the wife of his bosom thus becomes the abettor of the enemy. The Reader will recollect how the adversary adopted the same plan, in the instance of Jesus, when Peter would have prompted Christ to avoid suffering. That Satan had a hand in this is most evident, from what the Lord said to him; Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense unto me. Matthew 16:23. Reader! mark those traits of character Satan's temptations, and be led therefrom to suspect those yet with more jealousy, which come from a quarter least expected. What a blessed account the Holy Ghost gives of the issue of Job's trials. In all this, did not Job sin with his lips. Oh! how truly blessed is it to be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.