Bible verse

Job 2:9

Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

Job 2:9 · BSB

Job 2:9 in context

The verses around it, from Job 2.

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.

9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

11 Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

12 When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

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Job 2:9 in other translations

KJV

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

ASV

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

ERV

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

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