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Job 2:5

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “However, put forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, [and see] if he will not curse thee to thy face!
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— In very deed, put forth, I pray thee thy hand, and smite unto his bone, and unto his flesh,—verily, unto thy face, will he curse thee.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike unto his bone and unto his flesh—if not: unto Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But put foorth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— But put forth thy hand now, and touch his flesh or his bone, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Nay, but put forth thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless thee to [thy] face.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
But 199
{0199} Prime
אוּלָם
'uwlam
{oo-lawm'}
Apparently a variation of H0194; however or on the contrary.
put forth 7971
{7971} Prime
שָׁלַח
shalach
{shaw-lakh'}
A primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications).
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
thine hand 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
now, x4994
(4994) Complement
נָא
na'
{naw}
A primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered I pray, now or then; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjugation.
and touch 5060
{5060} Prime
נגע
naga`
{naw-gah'}
A primitive root; properly to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.).
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
his bone 6106
{6106} Prime
עֶצֶם
`etsem
{eh'-tsem}
From H6105; a bone (as strong); by extension the body; figuratively the substance, that is, (as pronoun) selfsame.
and his flesh, 1320
{1320} Prime
בָּשָׂר
basar
{baw-sawr'}
From H1319; flesh (from its freshness); by extension body, person; also (by euphemism) the pudenda of a man.
and x518
(0518) Complement
אִם
'im
{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
he will curse 1288
{1288} Prime
בּרךְ
barak
{baw-rak'}
A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason).
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
thee to x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
thy face. 6440
{6440} Prime
פָּנִים
paniym
{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun (פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.).
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

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Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Job 2:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Job 2:5

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his (f) bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

(f) Meaning, his own person.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
put forth:

Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 19:20-21 My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ... Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
1 Chronicles 21:17 And David said unto God, [Is it] not I [that] commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done evil indeed; but [as for] these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not on thy people, that they should be plagued.
Psalms 32:3-4 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ... For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
Psalms 38:2-7 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. ... For my loins are filled with a loathsome [disease]: and [there is] no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

He will curse:

Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Job 1:5 And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Leviticus 24:15 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.
Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Lv 24:15. 1Ch 21:17. Jb 1:5, 11; 2:9; 19:20. Ps 32:3; 38:2; 39:10. Is 8:21.

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