Job 2:6
Good News Translation
So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power, but you are not to kill him."

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, he is in your power; only spare his life.”

Contemporary English Version
"All right!" the LORD replied. "Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him."

New American Bible
And the LORD said to the satan, “He is in your power; only spare his life.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.

Behold.

Job 1:12 Then the Lord said to Satan: Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand: only put not forth thy hand upon his person. And Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.

but.

Job 38:10,11 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: . . .

Psalm 65:7 Who troublest the depth of the sea, the noise of its waves. The Gentiles shall be troubled,

Luke 8:29-33 For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man. For many times it seized him: and he was bound with chains and kept in fetters: and breaking the bonds, he was driven by the devil into the deserts. . . .

Luke 22:31,32 And the Lord said: Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:13 Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

Revelation 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 20:1,2,7 And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. . . .

his life.

Context
Job Loses His Health
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. 6And the Lord said to Satan: Behold, he is in thy hand, but yet save his life.7So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:…
Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:7
And lest the greatness of the revelations should exalt me, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me.

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 2:7
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:

Job 2:5
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