Job 2:9

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Job 2:9

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

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ASV

American Standard Version

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

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.

⁸ And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

⁹ Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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.

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.

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