Verse
Job 2:10 — But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women…
“But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.”
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The verses around Job 2:10.
8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Verse explanation
Job rebukes his wife and accepts both good and evil from God’s hand — the narrator repeats that he did not sin “with his lips,” a hint that something may shift further on.
From the Job 2 study in Bible in Stories.
Job 2:10 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Porém elle lhe disse: Como falla qualquer das doidas, fallas tu; receberemos o bem de Deus, e não receberiamos o mal? Em tudo isto não peccou Job com os seus labios.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Porém ele lhe disse: Tu falas como uma tola. Receberíamos o bem de Deus, e o mal não receberíamos? Em tudo isto Jó não pecou com seus lábios.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Pero él le dijo: “¡Hablas como lo haría cualquier mujer insensata! ¿Debemos recibir sólo el bien de Dios, y no el mal?” A pesar de todo esto, Job no dijo nada pecaminoso.
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