THEOSISJob 2:9Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר לוֹ֙ אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ עֹדְךָ֖ מַחֲזִ֣יק בְּתֻמָּתֶ֑ךָ בָּרֵ֥ךְ אֱלֹהִ֖ים וָמֻֽת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Job 2:3And 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.
- Job 2:5But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.
- Mal 3:14And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
- Job 1:11But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.
- Job 21:14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
- Gen 3:6And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat.
- Gen 3:12And Adam said: The woman, whom thou gavest me to be my companion, gave me of the tree, and I did eat.