Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 2:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
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Role in This Section
Job 2:5 advances the thought unit with the words “But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee….” The adversary predicts that bodily affliction will make Job curse the LORD openly.
Read It With
- Job 2:1–2:6
Read Job 2:5 with 2:1–2:6. Read alone, “But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The heavenly scene repeats; God affirms Job's retained integrity and undeserved ruin, while the adversary proposes bodily suffering and receives a limit protecting Job's life.
Why It Needs Context
Job 2:5 depends on 2:1–2:6; isolating “But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The prose narrator and “The Second Council Permits Bodily Affliction.”
Read Job 2:1–6 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 2:1–2:6 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained prose scene: “The Second Council Permits Bodily Affliction.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Verse 2. 2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Verse 3. 3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Verse 4. 4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Verse 5. 5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Verse 6. 6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Job 2:1–2:6 — The Second Council Permits Bodily AfflictionSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 2:1–2:6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 2:1–2:6
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