Job 2:4

Skin. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part), App-6, one part of the body put for the whole.

life. soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.

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⁴ And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Related Commentaries of Job 2:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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