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

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But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh,[a] and he will no doubt[b] curse you to your face!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:5 sn The “bones and flesh” are idiomatic for the whole person, his physical and his psychical/spiritual being (see further H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 26-28).
  2. Job 2:5 sn This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there.

But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones,(A) and he will surely curse you to your face.”(B)

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