Job 1:11

11. Touch all that he hath God needs but touch the fairest estate of man and it withers. The word נגע may also be rendered smite, as in Job 1:19. It is worthy of special remark that Job’s piteous cry, “the hand of God hath touched me,” (Job 19:21,) corresponds to the present cruel demand of Satan with the same word, נגע . Some have indulged the fanciful notion that the Satan here is merely an accusing angel; but the maliciousness evinced not only in his sneer at human virtue, but in his desire that God should touch all that Job hath, already proclaims him the devil whose works Christ came to destroy.

And he will curse thee

And אים לא , literally, If not, truly, verily; the formula of an path without the apodosis. The evil spirit is by no means chary of the words he uses.

Curse thee ברךְ in the sense of renouncing, as in Job 1:5. (See note.) The shameless effrontery and arrogance of Satan are heightened by the added words, “to thy face.”