Job 2:6

6. In thine hand “God did not himself smite Job lest Satan should carpingly say, Thou hast spared and not tried him to the utmost.” Chrysostom.

But save his life Only (margin) spare his life; נפשׁו , naphsho; according to others, his soul, that which gives life. Apart from its union with the spirit, there is no life of the body. (James 2:26.) According to Maimonides, (in Moreh,) God stipulated that his mind should not be touched, because it is of divine substance. “This limiting of his power that the mind should be spared,” the Talmud says, “was more grievous to Satan than to Job. As if one should permit the breaking of a flask on the condition that the wine be preserved.” The meaning here, however, must, as in Job 2:4, be “life.”