The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh ; i.e. "his person"—any part of his body . And he will curse thee to thy face (see the comment on Job 11:11 ). read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:6
And the Lord said unto Satan, Behold he is in thine hand ; i.e. "he is in thy power, to do with him as thou pleasest"—except in one respect. Again it is strongly marked that Satan's power is under God's control, and extends only so far as God shows. But save his life ; rather, only spare his life (Revised Version). The didactic purposes for which God was allowing his faithful servant to be tried in the furnace of affliction would have been frustrated by Job's removal from the earth.... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord (comp. Job 1:12 , ad fin. ) . Satan, we may be sure, is always anxious to quit the immediate presence of God; for "what communion hath light with darkness?" ( 2 Corinthians 6:14 ). But now he had a special motive for haste in his anxiety to put Job to the test. Doubtless he was confident that he would triumph. And smote Job with sore boils . "With a malignant inflammation" (Lee). It has been generally concluded, from the scattered... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:7-8
Job's leprosy. Satan has now obtained permission to go a step further, and lay his hand on the person of God's servant. He uses the new privilege with skilful ingenuity, selecting the most horrible and loathsome disease, and smiting Job with the worst form of leprosy—elephantiasis. I. THE MISERY OF THE INFLICTION . 1 . It touches the man himself. Hitherto the blows have fallen on his outer world, though, indeed, they have come very near to him in striking his children.... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:7-10
The patriarch's second trial. I. THE TWOFOLD ASSAULT UPON THE PATRIARCH . 1 . The infliction of a loathsome disease. (a) by wearing out his strength, and so rendering him more accessible to the entrance of diabolic temptations; (b) by making him an object of abhorrence to mankind, and so in a manner cutting him off from human sympathy; and (c) by leading him to regard his malady as a special visitation from Heaven, and so tempting him to entertain harsh thoughts... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:8
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal . "The surface of the integuments," says Dr. Quain, "is often much inflamed, and sometimes discharges a serous ichor, or chyle-like fluid, according to the extent to which the lymphatics are engaged in the particular ease". This "serous or lymph-like fluid" is occasionally "acrid and offensive." Job seems to have used his potsherd to scrape it away . And he sat down among the ashes. Not as a curative process, or even as an alleviation... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Job's wife had said nothing when the other calamities had taken place—then she had "refrained her tongue, and kept silence," though probably with some difficulty. Now she can endure no longer. To see her husband so afflicted, and so patient under his afflictions, is more than she can bear. Her mind is weak and ill regulated, and she suffers herself to become Satan's ally and her husband's worst enemy. It is noticeable that... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:9
Husband and wife. I. THE WIFE 'S TEMPTATION . 1 . Its source . Job is now tempted by his own wile—by her who is nearest to him, and who should be almost his second self. Chrysostom asks, "Why did the devil leave him his wife?' and replies, "Because he thought her a good scourge by which to plague him more acutely than by any other means." Certainly the temptation which comes through one whom we love is the most powerful. Christ met the tempter in a favourite disciple. It is the... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:9-10
Job and his wife. I. A FOOLISH WOMAN . II. A FAITHFUL HUSBAND . III. A THANKFUL SAINT . IV. A SUBMISSIVE SUFFERER . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Job 2:4
Satan's old saw (Browning). Satan was defeated in the first trial, but not convinced. With persistent malignity he proceeded to suggest a more severe test. It was no fault of his that the first test, hard as it was, had not gone to the utmost extremity; for he had been expressly limited by the words, "Only upon himself put not forth thine hand" ( Job 2:12 ). He had gone to the full length of his tether, but that had not satisfied him; so he must apply for a larger privilege of... read more