1 Satan appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.
7 He smites him with sore boils.
9 Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.
11 His three friends console with him in silence.

Again. See on 1:6 Isa 6:1,2 Lu 1:19 Heb 1:14

2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

From whence. Ge 16:8

From going. 1:7 Joh 14:30 2Co 4:4 1Pe 5:8

3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Hast thou. See on 1:1,8 9:20 Ge 6:9 Ps 37:37 Php 3:12 1Pe 5:10

an upright. Pr 11:8 13:6 14:2 15:8 16:17

holdeth. 1:21,22 13:15 27:5,6 Ps 26:1 41:12 Jas 1:12 1Pe 1:7

thou movedst. 1:11

destroy him. Heb. swallow him up. 2Sa 20:20

without. 9:17 Joh 9:3

4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

all that. Es 7:3,4 Isa 2:20,21 Jer 41:8 Mt 6:25 16:26 Ac 27:18,19 Php 3:8-10

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

put forth. 1:11 19:20,21 1Ch 21:17 Ps 32:3,4 38:2-7 39:10

He will curse. 9 1:5,11 Le 24:15 Isa 8:21

6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

Behold. See on 1:12

but. or, only. save. 38:10,11 Ps 65:7 Lu 8:29-33 22:31,32 1Co 10:13 Re 2:10 Re 20:1,2,7

his life. By naphsho, 'his soul,' Maimonides understands 'his mind,' or intellectual powers.

7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

So went. 1Ki 22:22

sore boils. Shechin r?, supposed to be the Judham, or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching.

30:17-19,30 Ex 9:9-11 De 28:27,35 Re 16:11

from the sole. Isa 1:6 3:17

8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

took him. 19:14-17 Ps 38:5,7 Lu 16:20,21

he sat. 42:6 2Sa 13:19 Isa 61:3 Eze 27:30 Jon 3:6 Mt 11:21

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

his wife. Ge 3:6,12 1Ki 11:4

retain. 3 21:14,15 2Ki 6:33 Mal 3:14

curse God. 5 1:11

10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Thou speakest. Ge 3:17 2Sa 19:22 Mt 16:23

as one. 2Sa 6:20,21 13:13 24:10 2Ch 16:9 Pr 9:6,13 Mt 25:2

shall we receive. 1:1-3,10,21 2Sa 19:28 La 3:38-41 Joh 18:11 Ro 12:12 Heb 12:9-11 Jas 5:10

In all this. 1:22 Ps 39:1 59:12 Mt 12:34-37 Jas 3:2

11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

friends. 6:14 16:20 19:19,21 42:7 Pr 17:17 18:24 27:10

Temanite. 6:19 15:1 Ge 36:11,15 Jer 49:7

Shuhite. 8:1 18:1 Ge 25:2 1Ch 1:32

to come. 42:11 Ge 37:35 Isa 51:19 Joh 11:19 Ro 12:15 1Co 12:26 Heb 13:3

to comfort. 13:4 16:2

12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

knew him. 19:14 Ru 1:19-21 La 4:7,8

their voice. Ge 27:34 Jud 2:4 1Sa 11:4 30:4 2Sa 13:36 Es 4:1

they rent. 1:20

sprinkled dust upon. Ne 9:1 La 2:10 Eze 27:30 Re 18:19

13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

they sat. Ezr 9:3 Ne 1:4 Isa 3:26 47:1

seven days. Ge 1:5,8 50:10

none spake. 4:2 Ps 77:4