Job Loses His Health
Job 2:4
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- KJV
- And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
- WEB
- Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will 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.
- LSV
- And Satan answers YHWH and says, “A skin for a skin, and all that a man has he gives for his life.
- YLT
- And the Adversary answereth Jehovah and saith, 'A skin for a skin, and all that a man hath he doth give for his life.
- DBY
- And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;
- DRC
- And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will give for his life:
- GNV
- And Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life.
- JPS
- And Satan answered the LORD, and said: 'Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
- LXXE
- And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיַּ֧עַן הַשָּׂטָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה וַיֹּאמַ֑ר ע֣וֹר בְּעַד־ע֗וֹר וְכֹל֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָאִ֔ישׁ יִתֵּ֖ן בְּעַ֥ד נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὑπολαβὼν δὲ ὁ διάβολος εἶπε τῷ Κυρίῳ, δέρμα ὑπὲρ δέρματος, ὅσα ὑπάρχει ἀνθρώπῳ ὑπέρ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ἐκτίσει.
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How traditions read it
Identified with Satan in later Jewish and Christian tradition · Satan
The Hebrew śāṭān means "adversary" or "accuser". In Job 1–2 and Zechariah 3 it has the article ("the satan"), a title rather than a name, and in Psalm 109:6 it is a human accuser ("let an accuser stand at his right hand"). 1 Chronicles 21:1 has no article and is the likeliest use as a name. Later Jewish and Christian tradition identifies these figures with Satan.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Philippians 3:8–10More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him,…
- Matthew 6:25Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
- Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Jeremiah 41:8But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.
- Esther 7:3–4Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request. For my people and I have been sold out to…
- Acts 27:18–19We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo. On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
- Isaiah 2:20–21In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship. They will flee to caverns in the rocks and crevices in the cliffs, away from the terror of the LORD…
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