Job 2:9

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

Then said {H559} his wife {H802} unto him, Dost thou still retain {H2388} thine integrity {H8538}? curse {H1288} God {H430}, and die {H4191}.

His wife asked him, "Why do you still hold on to your integrity? Curse God, and die!"

Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

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

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Job 2:3 (8 votes)

    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.

  • Job 2:5 (8 votes)

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

  • Malachi 3:14 (6 votes)

    Ye have said, It [is] vain to serve God: and what profit [is it] that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

  • Job 1:11 (5 votes)

    But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

  • Job 21:14 (5 votes)

    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

  • Job 21:15 (5 votes)

    What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

  • 2 Kings 6:33 (5 votes)

    And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil [is] of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?