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Job 2:1

In chapter 1, Satan (the devil) wanted Job to insult God. Job refused to obey Satan. So Job was still a good man. Job had many troubles. He lost everything. His children were dead. But Job still respected God. And Job continued to praise God. This was bad news for Satan.

Then Satan decided to oppose Job again. Satan is a powerful enemy, but he can also be stupid. Satan thought that illness would make Job insult God. But Job was a good man. Job trusted God. Job would not obey Satan.

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See also Job 2:1 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER II _The sons of God once more present themselves before him; and_ _Satan comes also, accusing Job as a person whose steadfastness_ _would be soon shaken, provided his body were to be subjec...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AGAIN THERE WAS A DAY ... - See the notes at Job 1:6. These seasons are represented as periodical, when the angels came, as it were, to make report to God of what they had observed and done. The Chald...

  • 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

    WAS. came to be. A DAY. the fit, or usual. THE SONS OF GOD. See note on Job 1:6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4 and App-23. SATAN. the Adversary....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 2:1-10. Job's second trial and its issue: he sinned not with his lips How long time intervened between Job's first trial and the second is not stated. The Targum seems to conjecture a year. The n...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _SATAN AGAIN CALUMINATES JOB BEFORE GOD, WHOSE BODY GOD PERMITS HIM TO AFFLICT, BUT NOT SO AS TO TAKE AWAY HIS LIFE. JOB IS SMITTEN BY SATAN WITH SORE BOILS. HE REPROVES HIS WIFE. HIS THREE FRIENDS, E...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    6. The second trialbodily suffering (Job 2:1-8) TEXT 2:1-8 2 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to presen...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AGAIN THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN CAME ALSO AMONG THEM TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE THE LORD._ A day - appointed for the angels giving an...

  • 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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    II. (1) AND SATAN CAME ALSO. — See Job 1:7. St. Peter applies to Satan the verb from which we have _peripatetic. _...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֣י הַ יֹּ֔ום וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י

  • 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

    Again there was a day when the (a) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and (b) Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. (a) That is, the angels, (Job 1:6)....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Day. Job had been under trial for some time, perhaps a year. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS In the former Chapter we find Satan tempting Job, in some very heavy and trying afflictions of Job's family and circumstances; and Job triumphant. In this Chapter we have the adversary makin...

  • 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

    AGAIN, THERE WAS A DAY, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD,.... When good men, professors of religion, met together by agreement to worship the Lord; the Targum calls them...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. Ver. 1. _Again there was a day_] Whether the...

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

    _Again there was a day_ Another appointed season, some convenient time after the former calamities. Heath translates ויהי הוים, _vajehi hajom, Again it was the day._ Of this and the two next verses, s...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Again there was a day, some time after Satan had exhausted his efforts to shake the piety of Job by the destruction of his property and the slaughter of his children, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD, the angels,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB STRICKEN WITH A SEVERE DISEASE...

  • 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

    WE find the same scene repeated that we saw in the previous chapter. We should note that Satan does not give up easily, he is persistent, and he does not cry uncle when he fails. In addition, Satan s...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JOB CHAPTER 2 Satan's second appearance before God: Job's character continuing the same, condemneth Satan, JOB 2:1. Satan judgeth him not sufficiently tried, unless his body suffer; and so obtaineth l...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 2:1 day H3117 sons H1121 God H430 came H935 (H8799) present H3320 (H8692) LORD H3068 Satan H

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SATAN See (Job 2:2); (Job 2:6); (Psalms 109:6); (Genesis 3:1); ...

  • 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

    _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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 2:4. “_Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life_.” The expression “skin for skin” acknowledged to be a proverbial one. Its precise meaning not so obvious, though its...

  • 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

    Hebrews 1:14; Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:2; Job 1:6; Luke 1:19...

  • 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...

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