Job 2

Job 2:2

earth] He hath no power in Heaven; no temptation is there.

skin for skin] Any skin for his own; though even that of his children, chap. I. 19.

for his life] To save his life and person free.

Job 2:7

sore boiles] Satans power, if God give him leave.

Job 2:9

Curse] Hebr. Blesse. Either it is an ironical scoffe at Jobs piety, and patience: Or the word beareth two contrary significations: as the Hebrew Kadesh, Levit. VI. 29. Deut. XXII. 9.

And with the Greeks, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; and the Latines, Sacer, and sundry others do. And so Cursing is here meant; as chap. I. 11. and 1 Kings XXI. 10. Some conceive that the crime of Blasphemy was so odious and execrable in those dayes, that men could not endure to hear it called by the proper name; but though they had a word to expresse it by, yet they chose rather to understand it by the contrary. So a Sodomite, and a Whore (our English word may haply be rather Hore, from Hire; as Meretrix, from Merces) have their names in Hebrew from holinesse, being both most unholy, Job XXXVI. 14. Gen.

XXXVIII. 21, 22. Deut. XXIII. 18.

Job 2:12

and knew him not] At first sight.

wept] When they came near, and knew him.

Job 2:13

Seven dayes] The three friends silence for seven dayes and nights is wonderful; Somewhat like is that, Ezek. III. 15, 16. See Lam. II. 10. and III. 28.