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Job 2:6

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

KJV

Dixit ergo Dominus ad Satan : Ecce in manu tua est : verumtamen animam illius serva.

Vulgate

εἶπεν δὲ ὁ κύριος τῷ διαβόλῳ Ἰδοὺ παραδίδωμί σοι αὐτόν· μόνον τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ διαφύλαξον.

LXX

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

ASV

וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר יְהוָ֛ה אֶל הַ/שָּׂטָ֖ן הִנּ֣/וֹ בְ/יָדֶ֑/ךָ אַ֖ךְ אֶת נַפְשׁ֥/וֹ שְׁמֹֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַךְ
'k
adverb · 158×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
נִ֨י
ny
pronoun · 313×
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
shmry
verb · 467×
שָּׂטָ֔ן
shtn
noun · 27×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. That one of you should have his father's wife. Wherefore said he not, That he should abuse his father's wife? The extreme foulness of the deed caused him to shrink. He hurries by it accordingly, with a sort of scrupulousness as though it had been explicitly mentioned before. And hereby again he aggravates the charge, implying that such things are ventured on among them as ev…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:5 — To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
  • 1Cor 10:13 — There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to esca
  • Job 1:12 — And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
  • Job 38:11 — And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
  • Luke 12:23 — The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.
  • Luke 22:31 — And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
  • Mark 5:13 — And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were
  • Mark 9:20 — And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
  • Rev 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and
  • Rev 9:5 — And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.