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Job 2:5

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

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ASV

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

KJV

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אוּלָם֙'u.LambutH199 →
שְֽׁלַֽח־she.lach-stretch outH7971 →
נָ֣אna'pleaseH4994 →
יָֽדְךָ֔ya.de.Khahand yourH3027 →
וְגַ֥עve.Ga'and touchH5060 →
אֶל־'el-<to>H413 →
עַצְמ֖וֹatz.Mobone hisH6106 →
וְאֶל־ve.'el-and <to>H413 →
בְּשָׂר֑וֹbe.sa.Roflesh hisH1320 →
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
פָּנֶ֖יךָpa.Nei.khaface yourH6440 →
יְבָרֲכֶֽךָּ׃ye.va.ra.Khe.kahe will bless youH1288 →

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Isaiah 54:17No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”2 Corinthians 2:11in order that Satan should not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.Revelation 12:10And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down—he who accuses them day and night before our God.Leviticus 24:15And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘If anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.Job 19:20–21My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.Leviticus 24:11The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His mother’s name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)Isaiah 65:3to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.Psalms 38:2–7For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.Psalms 32:3–4When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.Job 2:9Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”Job 19:22Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?Genesis 3:3but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”Job 4:5But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.Job 19:21Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me.

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