Job 2:8

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 2:1-13

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 taken place. The adversary declared that the limits which God had set had hindered him in the accomplishment of his purpose. Though Job had triumphed over his loss of possession, he was not therefore proven loyal to God. The essential greatness of the man was unimpaired in that his own life had not... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 2:1-9

Heaven's Controversy Concerning Job Job 2:1-9 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 the Lord had observed the fidelity of His servant, that His eye was upon him, and that He still had nothing but endorsement for His servant. Before we take up the results of Satan's second challenge to God concerning Job's fidelity, we wish to carry you into the consideration of God's all-seeing... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:1-10

Job 2:1-2 Samuel : . 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 undeserved affliction on Job. The terrible trial has been shown to be unnecessary. Job still holds fast his integrity. Satan’ s answer is ready. He speaks impudently, using a common proverb, the origin of which, however, we do not know. Perhaps, says Duhm, the Bedouin may have... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 2:8

He took him a potsherd; partly to allay the itch which his ulcers caused; and partly to squeeze out or take away that purulent matter which was under them, or flowed from them, and was the great cause of his torment. And this he did not with soft linen cloths, either because he had not now a sufficient quantity of them for so much use, or because therein he must have had the help of others, who abhorred to come near him, Job 19:13-15; nor with his own hands or fingers, which were also ulcerous,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 2:7-10

NotesJob 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 malignant ulcer.” The word שְׁחִין (shekheen) which we render “boils,” derived from a root not used in Hebrew, but appearing in the Arabic سَخَن (sakhana) to be hot, inflamed, fevered. Job’s disease, according to GESENIUS, NOYES, and others, a kind of black leprosy, formerly prevailing in Egypt... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

Chapter 2So 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 have to say concerning Satan, I do... well, what do you say, admire? This guy has a lot of chutzpah. I mean, to go in and stand before God, to present himself before God takes quite a bit.And God again said, [Hey,] where have you been? ( Job 2:2 )As though God doesn't know.He said, [Oh, I've... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 2:1-13

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 consisted in cattle and skins; and the honest man would sooner give up his skins to the Arabian robbers than his life. But as the Hebrew language labours under many difficulties from the bearing of its prepositions, those who follow the LXX, “skin after skin,” make the sense to be, that... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 2:1-10

Job 2:1-10And Satan came also among them. Spiritual agencies, good and evil, in sicknessThis is one of those mysterious chapters of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthening of our faith and loving trust in Him, a brief glimpse of that which is continually going on, day by day, in regions mysterious to mortal vision, and in which, could we but at all times feel it, we are so greatly concerned. Scripture is consistent in its testimony throughout--that there is... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 2:6-10

Job 2:6-10Behold, he is in thine hand. Satan malevolently dealing with Job’s personalityI. Satan’s low estimate of human nature. His language here clearly implies that even a good man’s love of goodness is not supreme and invincible. He states--1. That goodness is not so dear to him as life. “Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.” Self-preservation is a strong instinct in human nature, and therefore a Divine principle; but it is not true that it is ever the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 2:8

Job 2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes. Ver. 8. And he took him a potsherd ] A piece of a broken pot, for want of better; ointments he had none, nor baths, to lenify his soreness. Physicians and friends were far from him. He looked on his right band, and beheld, but there was no man that would know him: refuge failed and perished from him; no man cared for his soul, Psalms 142:4 . He had still a wife and servants, and (as some think) his... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Job 2:1-13

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Job 2:1-9

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:1-10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 2:8

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 2:7-10

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Job 2:1-13

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 2:1-10

The Biblical Illustrator - Job 2:6-10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Job 2:8

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