Job 2:9 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

His wife asked him, "Are you still holding on to your principles? Curse God and die!"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.

DBY:

And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die.

WEB:

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

YLT:

And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

Job 2:9 Cross References

XREF:

Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 2:10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

2:9 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 gain from serving God, seeing he thus plagues you, as though he were your enemy? This is the most grievous temptation for the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satan goes about to persuade them that they trust in God in vain.
(m) For death was appointed to the blasphemer and so she meant that he would quickly be rid of his pain.

WES:

2:9 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, that we be not drawn to any evil, by them whom we love and value the most. Die - I see thou art set upon blessing of God, thou blessest God for giving, and thou blessest God for taking away, and thou art still blessing God for thy loathsome diseases, and he rewards thee accordingly, giving thee more and more of that kind of mercy for which thou blessest him. Go on therefore in thy generous course, and bless God, and die as a fool dieth.

MHC:

2:7-10 The devil tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. He provoked Job to curse God. The disease was very grievous. If at any time we are tried with sore and grievous distempers, let us not think ourselves dealt with otherwise than as God sometimes deals with the best of his saints and servants. Job humbled himself under the mighty hand of God, and brought his mind to his condition. His wife was spared to him, to be a troubler and tempter to him. Satan still endeavours to draw men from God, as he did our first parents, by suggesting hard thoughts of Him, than which nothing is more false. But Job resisted and overcame the temptation. Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the punishment of our sins, when we suffer so much less than we deserve? Let murmuring, as well as boasting, be for ever done away. Thus far Job stood the trial, and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.

CONC:

Blaspheme Bless Curse Die Fast Firm Hold Holding Integrity Keeping Maintain Renounce Retain Righteousness Wife

Blaspheme Bless Curse Die End Fast Firm Hold Holding Integrity Keeping Maintain Renounce Retain Righteousness Wife

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