Bible verse

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Job 2:4 · BSB

Job 2:4 in context

The verses around it, from Job 2.

1 On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

2 “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

3 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

6 “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

8 And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

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Job 2:4 in other translations

KJV

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

ASV

And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

ERV

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

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