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Job 2:6

World English Bible

Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”

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Job 2:6 in other translations

And Jehovah said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life.

Job 2:6 · American Standard Version

Job 2:6 in context

  1. 4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
  2. 5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
  3. 6Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
  4. 7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
  5. 8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.