THEOSISJob 2:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
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:
וַיֵּצֵא֙ הַשָּׂטָ֔ן מֵאֵ֖ת פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיַּ֤ךְ אֶת־אִיּוֹב֙ בִּשְׁחִ֣ין רָ֔ע מִכַּ֥ף רַגְל֖וֹ עד וְעַ֥ד קָדְקֳדֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 28:35May the Lord strike thee with a very sore ulcer in the knees and in the legs, and be thou incurable from the sole of the foot to the top of the head.
- Isa 1:6From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.
- Job 30:30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
- Deut 28:27The Lord strike thee with the ulcer of Egypt, and the part of thy body, by which the dung is cast out, with the scab and with the itch: so that thou canst not be healed.
- Job 7:5My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust; my skin is withered and drawn together.
- Isa 3:17The Lord will make bald the crown of the head of the daughters of Sion, and the Lord will discover their hair.
- Job 30:17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
- Job 30:19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.