Job 2:9
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
KJV
Dixit autem illi uxor sua : Adhuc tu permanes in simplicitate tua ? Benedic Deo, et morere.
Vulgate
χρόνου δὲ πολλοῦ προβεβηκότος εἶπεν αὐτῷ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Μέχρι τίνος καρτερήσεις λέγων [1] Ἰδοὺ ἀναμένω χρόνον ἔτι μικρὸν προσδεχόμενος τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς σωτηρίας μου; [2] ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἠφάνισταί σου τὸ μνημόσυνον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐμῆς κοιλίας ὠδῖνες καὶ πόνοι, οὓς εἰς τὸ κενὸν ἐκοπίασα μετὰ μόχθων. [3] σύ τε αὐτὸς ἐν σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων κάθησαι διανυκτερεύων αἴθριος· [4] κἀγὼ πλανωμένη καὶ λάτρις, τόπον ἐκ τόπου καὶ οἰκίαν ἐξ οἰκίας, προσδεχομένη τὸν ἥλιον πότε δύσεται, ἵνα ἀναπαύσωμαι τῶν μόχθων μου καὶ τῶν ὀδυνῶν αἵ με νῦν συνέχουσιν. [5] ἀλλὰ εἰπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς Κύριον, καὶ τελεύτα.
LXX
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.
ASV
וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר ל/וֹ֙ אִשְׁתּ֔/וֹ עֹדְ/ךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֣יק בְּ/תֻמָּתֶ֑/ךָ בָּרֵ֥ךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וָ/מֻֽת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Trees which have been planted, and have had the advantage of all other care, and the hands and the labors of the cultivator, and yet yield no return for the labors, are pulled up by the roots, and handed over to the fire. So somewhat of this kind takes place also in the case of our Illumination. For when Christ has planted us, and we have enjoyed the watering of the Spirit, …
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 11:4 — For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- 2Cor 2:11 — Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
- 2Cor 4:8 — We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
- 2Kgs 6:33 — And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
- 2Kgs 6:33 — And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
- Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
- Gen 3:12 — And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- Job 1:11 — But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- Job 2:3 — 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 holdet
- Job 2:5 — But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- Job 19:17 — My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
- Job 21:14 — Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Job 27:5 — God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.
- Mal 3:14 — Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?