Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 2:7 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 7. 7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
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Role in This Section
Job 2:7 opens the thought unit with the words “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the….” The prose narrator develops the next stated step through “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the…” as part of Job Sits in Ashes with Painful Sores.
Read It With
- Job 2:7–2:8
Read Job 2:7 with 2:7–2:8. Read alone, “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The adversary strikes Job from foot to crown, and Job scrapes himself while sitting among ashes.
Why It Needs Context
Job 2:7 depends on 2:7–2:8; isolating “So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The prose narrator and “Job Sits in Ashes with Painful Sores.”
Read Job 2:7–8 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 2:7–2:8 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained prose scene: “Job Sits in Ashes with Painful Sores.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 7. 7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Verse 8. 8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Job 2:7–2:8 — Job Sits in Ashes with Painful SoresSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
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 2:7–2:8, 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 2:7–2:8
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