Job 2:6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

Job’s loathsome disease (2:1-13)Not accepting defeat, Satan still claimed that Job was concerned only for himself. He would sacrifice his possessions, and even his family, provided he himself avoided suffering. He would sacrifice their skin to save his own (2:1-5). God again accepted Satan’s challenge, this time allowing him to attack Job’s body (6). Satan therefore afflicted Job with the most painful and loathsome disease. The faith of Job’s wife failed, but Job’s faith did not, even though he... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 2:6

save his life ullet = save his soul. Hebrew. Nephesh. App-13 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 2:6

6. but save—rather, "only spare his life." Satan shows his ingenuity in inflicting pain, and also his knowledge of what man's body can bear without vital injury. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 2:1-10

2. The second test 2:1-10Satan again claimed that Job served God only because God had made it advantageous for Job to do so. Job still had his own life. Satan insinuated that Job had been willing to part with his own children and his animals (wealth) since he still had his own life (skin, Job 2:4)."Satan implies that Job, by his doxology had only feigned love for God as the exorbitant but necessary fee for health insurance." [Note: Kline, p. 463.] Satan could do nothing to Job without God’s... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 2:6-10

B. Job’s Calamities 1:6-2:10God permitted Satan to test Job twice. [Note: For a summary of what the Book of Job teaches about God, see Zuck, A Theology . . ., pp. 219-26.] The first test touched his possessions, including his children (Job 1:6-22), and the second his person (Job 2:1-10). God permitted Satan to afflict Job to demonstrate and to purify Job’s motives for worshipping God and for living a godly life (cf. James 1:2-4). The writer takes us behind the scenes in this pericope (Job 1:6... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 2:1-13

The Prologue (continued)Job’s second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him.3. Although thou movedst, etc.] or, ’so that it was in vain thou movedst me against him to destroy him.’4, 5. Skin for skin, etc.] The precise meaning of the proverb is uncertain, but the general meaning seems to be that as long as a man does not suffer in his own person he will gladly bear the sacrifice of everything else (’skin for skin’). But... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Job 2:6

(6) But save his life.—God’s faithfulness cannot fail even if, as Satan hints, Job’s should do so (2 Timothy 2:13). There was one who cared for Job’s life more than he cared for it himself. read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 2:1-13

Job 2:3 Compare Lord Cockburn's description of Robert Blair in his Memorials (p. 132): 'He was all honesty. The sudden opening of the whole secrets of his heart would not have disclosed a single speck of dishonour.' Reference. II. 3. F. W. Farrar, Everyday Christian Life, p. 110. Job 2:4 With man also as well as with the animals, says Martineau, 'Death is the evil from which he most shrinks himself, and which he most deplores for those he loves; it is the utmost that he can inflict upon his... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Job 2:1-13

V.THE DILEMMA OF FAITHJob 2:1-13As 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 denial, Job becomes a type of the righteous sufferer, the servant of God in the hot furnace of affliction. All true poetry runs thus into the typical. The interest of the movement depends on the representative character of the life, passionate in jealousy, indignation, grief, or ambition, pressing on... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 2:1-10

CHAPTER 2:1-10 1. Jehovah’s second challenge and Satan’s answer (Job 2:1-6 ) 2. Job stricken (Job 2:7-8 ) 3. Job’s wife, Job’s answer and victory (Job 2:9-10 ) Job 2:1-6 . Once more the sons of God, and Satan among them, present themselves before the Lord. It must have been immediately after Job’s afflictions had come upon him. Probably the Lord called the assembly. The victory is on the Lord’s side. Satan is defeated and his defeat is known to the heavenly hosts, who undoubtedly watched... read more

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