Job 2:9-11
1599 Geneva Bible
9 Then said his [a]wife unto him, Dost thou [b]continue yet in thine uprightness? [c]Blaspheme God, and die.
10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and not [d]receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his [e]lips.
11 Now when Job’s three [f]friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place, to wit, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they were agreed together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him.
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- Job 2:9 Satan useth the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam.
- 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.
- Job 2:9 For death was appointed to the blasphemer, and so she meant that he should soon be rid out of his pain.
- Job 2:10 That is, to be patient in adversity, as we rejoice when he sendeth prosperity, and so to acknowledge him to be both merciful and just.
- Job 2:10 He so bridled his affections, that his tongue through impatience did not murmur against God.
- Job 2:11 Which were men of authority, wise and learned, and as the Septuagint writes, Kings, and came to comfort him, but when they saw how he was visited, they conceived an evil opinion of him, as though he had been but an hypocrite, and so justly plagued of God for his sins.
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