Job 2:9

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

ASV

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

LSV

And his wife says to him, “You are still keeping hold on your integrity: bless God and die.”

YLT

And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'

DBY

And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.Elohim

DRC

And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

GNV

Then said his wife vnto him, Doest thou continue yet in thine vprightnes? Blaspheme God, and dye.

JPS

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

LXXE

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

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WLC

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ עֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֣יק בְּתֻמָּתֶ֑ךָ בָּרֵ֥ךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וָמֻֽת׃

LXX-Br

Χρόνου δὲ πολλοῦ προβεβηκότος, εἶπεν αὐτῷ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ, μέχρι τίνος καρτερήσεις, λέγων, ἰδοὺ ἀναμένω χρόνον ἔτι μικρὸν, προσδεχόμενος τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς σωτηρίας μου; ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἠφάνισταί σου τὸ μνημόσυνον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐμῆς κοιλίας ὠδῖνες καὶ πόνοι, οὓς εἰς τὸ κενὸν ἐκοπίασα μετὰ μόχθων· σύ τε αὐτὸς ἐν σαπρίᾳ σκωλήκων κάθησαι διανυκτερεύων αἴθριος, κᾀγὼ 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· ἀλλὰ εἶπόν τι ῥῆμα εἰς Κύριον, καὶ τελεύτα.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Job 2:3Then 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…
• Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is futile to serve God. What have we gained by keeping His requirements and walking mournfully before the LORD of Hosts?
• 2 Kings 6:33While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger came down to him. And the king said, “This calamity is from the LORD. Why should I wait for the LORD any longer?”
• Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate…
• Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• 1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
• Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
• Genesis 3:12And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

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