Job 2:4
Good News Translation
Satan replied, "A person will give up everything in order to stay alive.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Satan answered the LORD, “Skin for skin! All that people have they will give to save their lives.

Contemporary English Version
Satan answered, "There's no pain like your own. People will do anything to stay alive.

New American Bible
The satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

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And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

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Esther 7:3,4 Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request. . . .

Isaiah 2:20,21 In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he had made for himself to adore, moles and bats. . . .

Jeremiah 41:8 But ten men were found among them, that said to Ismahel: Kill us not: for we have stores in the field, of wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. And he forbore, and slew them not with their brethren.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Acts 27:18,19 And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship. . . .

Philippians 3:8-10 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. . . .

Context
Job Loses His Health
3And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause. 4And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:5But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.…
Cross References
Job 2:3
And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Job 2:5
But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Job 2:3
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