¶ So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore [a]boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And he took a [b]potsherd to scrape him, and he sat down among the ashes.

Then said his [c]wife unto him, Dost thou [d]continue yet in thine uprightness? [e]Blaspheme God, and die.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:7 This sore was most vehement, wherewith also God plagued the Egyptians, Exod. 9:9, and threateneth to punish the rebellious people, Deut. 28:27, so that this tentation was most grievous: for if Job had measured God’s favor by the vehemency of his disease, he might have thought that God had cast him off.
  2. Job 2:8 As destitute of all other help and means, and wonderfully afflicted with the sorrow of his disease.
  3. Job 2:9 Satan useth the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam.
  4. Job 2:9 Meaning, what gainest thou to serve God, seeing he thus plagueth thee, as though he were thine enemy? This is the most grievous temptation of the faithful, when their faith is assailed, and when Satan goeth about to persuade them that they trust in God in vain.
  5. Job 2:9 For death was appointed to the blasphemer, and so she meant that he should soon be rid out of his pain.

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