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Satan answered, “There's no pain like your own.[a] People will do anything to stay alive. Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face.”

“All right!” the Lord replied. “Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2.4 There's no pain like your own: The Hebrew text has “Skin for skin,” which was probably a popular saying.

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