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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Job 2:9

Bless. She speaks with cruel irony. (Calmet) --- Curse God, that he may take away (St. Basil) thy miserable life; or, after taking this revenge on such unjust treatment, put an end to thy own existence. Beza and Amama excuse this woman, though condemned by Job. They pretend that she only meant to insinuate, like the rest of his friends, that he must be guilty of some grievous crime, which she urges him to confess, giving glory to God, before it be too late. (Haydock)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 2:9. _THEN SAID HIS WIFE_] To this verse the _Septuagint_ adds the following words: "Much time having elapsed, his wife said unto him, How long dost thou stand steadfast, saying, 'Behold, I...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEN SAID HIS WIFE UNTO HIM - Some remarkable additions are made by the ancient versions to this passage. The Chaldee renders it, “and “Dinah” (דינה _dı̂ynâh_), his wife, said to him.” The author of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. Jehovah's second challenge and Satan's answer (Job 2:1)_ 2. Job stricken (Job 2:7) 3. Job's wife, Job's answer and victory (Job 2:9) Job 2

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN AND ITS ISSUES. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undeserve...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    DOST THOU... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. RETAIN. remain firm in....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Then said his wife_ The incident related of Job's wife is not introduced for her sake, but for the purpose of exhibiting through it the condition of Job's mind, around which the drama turns. The auth...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DOST THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? &C.— The word תם _tam,_ is the same in chap. Job 27:5 and there rendered _integrity. God forbid that I should justify you,_ says Job, in answer to the uncharita...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    7. Job refuses to curse God. (Job 2:9-10) TEXT 2:9, 10 (9) THEN SAID HIS WIFE UNTO HIM, DOST THOU STILL HOLD FAST THINE INTEGRITY? RENOUNCE GOD, AND DIE. (10) BUT HE SAID UNTO HER, THOU SPEAKEST AS...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN SAID HIS WIFE UNTO HIM, DOST THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? CURSE GOD, AND DIE._ Curse God - rather, renounce God. See the notes at Job 1:1; Job 5:1, (Umbreit.) Gesenius translates. 'Bless...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROLOGUE (CONTINUED) Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Job's wife would have had him act as the Adversary expected him to do. 'You may as well renounce God's service since you benefit so little by it, and meet your fate at once instead of lingering in int...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 2 SATAN OPPOSES JOB AGAIN...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Satan wanted Job to insult God (Job 1:11; Job 2:5). Here, Job’s own wife also wanted Job to insult God. She was like Eve, who told Adam not to obey God (1 Timothy 2:14). We should not listen to evil...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEN SAID HIS WIFE. — Thus it is that a man’s foes are they of his own household (Micah 7:6; Matthew 10:36, &c.). The worst trial of all is when those nearest to us, instead of strengthening our hand...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֹּ֤אמֶר לֹו֙ אִשְׁתֹּ֔ו עֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֣יק...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back into den...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “AMONG THE ASHES” Job 2:1 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his restless,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had tak...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then said his (k) wife unto him, Dost thou (l) still retain thine integrity? (m) curse God, and die. (k) Satan uses the same instrument against Job, as he did against Adam. (l) Meaning, what do you...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (9) Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. (10) But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _JOB’S TWO FOES AND THREE FRIENDS_ ‘Satan … his wife … Job’s three friends.’ Job 2:7; Job 2:9; Job 2:11 The outward calamities from which Job first suffered are narrated in chapter 1. Affliction, a...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    From Riches to Ashes I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the first Chapter of Job, we saw heavenly beings gathered to give an account to the Lord - and satan was amongst them! 1. satan accused...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID HIS WIFE TO HIM,.... The Jews g, who affect to know everything, say, that Job's wife was Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, as the Targum, but this is not very likely; however, we may observe tha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Ver. 9. _Then said his wife_] Was this Dinah, Jacob's only daughter? So the Jewish doctors say; and that Job h...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then said his wife_ Whom Satan had spared, that she might be a troubler and tempter to him. For it is his policy to send his temptations by those that are dear to us. We ought, therefore, carefully t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB REBUKES HIS WIFE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then said his wife, whose trust in God was evidently not as strongly founded as that of the sufferer, UNTO HIM, DOST THOU STILL RETAIN THINE INTEGRITY? He was clinging to a virtue which, as she suppos...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter 1. T...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "THEN HIS WIFE SAID TO HIM, 'DO YOU STILL HOLD FAST YOUR INTEGRITY? CURSE GOD AND DIE!'" This probably explains why Satan had not destroyed Job's wife previously with the rest of the family. Here she...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-10 The devil tempts his own children, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with affliction, and then tempted to make...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The devil spared _his wife_ with cruel intent to be the instrument of his temptations, and the aggravation of Job's misery, by unnatural unkindness to him, which is declared JOB 19:17, and elsewhere....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 2:9 wife H802 said H559 (H8799) fast H2388 (H8688) integrity H8538 Curse H1288 (H8761) God H4

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job in Satan's seive. Family, property and health gone. His three friends. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar. CONCLUSION: One of the greatest evidences of God's love to t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 2:1. _There was a day when the sons of God &c._ As on the former chapter, Job 2:6. Job 2:4. _Skin for skin._ Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society very much c...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Curse God and die._ JOB’S WIFE She only comes on the scene to heighten for one moment the intensity of her husband’s desolation and misery. “Renounce,” she says, “God and die.” “Leave the unprofitab...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, he is in thine hand._ SATAN MALEVOLENTLY DEALING WITH JOB’S PERSONALITY I. Satan’s low estimate of human nature. His language here clearly implies that even a good man’s love of goodness is...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And Satan came also among them._ SPIRITUAL AGENCIES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN SICKNESS This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthen...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:1 Job’s second test is like the first (Job 1:6), but includes an attack on his health. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:9 CURSE GOD AND DIE. Job’s wife advises him to respond to his suffering in the very way that Satan was hoping he would respond (see Job 1:11;...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 2:7. “_Smote Job with sore boils_.” The Septuagint and Vulgate, followed by MARTIN and DIODATI in their French and Italian versions, render the words which describe Job’s disease, “a bad or...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 2:1 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, and of a second coll...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So back again to the heavenly scene. Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD (Job 2:1). I hav...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 11:4; 2 Kings 6:33; Genesis 3:12; Genesis 3:6; Job 1:11;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JOB'S SORROWS AND SIGHS Job 2:9; Job 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter of Job beginning with verse nine where we left off in the forme...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HEAVEN'S CONTROVERSY CONCERNING JOB Job 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered that t...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Then said his wife — Whom Satan spared, to be a troubler and tempter to him. It is his policy, to send his temptations by the hands of those that are dear to us. We must therefore carefully watch, tha...

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