Job 2:6

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Job 2:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

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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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 1:12

“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Psalms 65:7

You stilled the roaring of the seas, the pounding of their waves, and the tumult of the nations.

Luke 8:29

For Jesus had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. Many times it had seized him, and though he was bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and been driven by the demon into solitary places.

Luke 8:30

“What is your name?” Jesus asked. “Legion,” he replied, because many demons had gone into him.

Luke 8:31

And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.

Luke 8:32

There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the demons begged Jesus to let them enter the pigs, and He gave them permission.

Luke 8:33

Then the demons came out of the man and went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

Luke 22:31

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.

Luke 22:32

But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 20:1

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:7

When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,