7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
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The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-10)The devil, having got leave to tear and worry poor Job, presently fell to work with him, as a tormentor first and then as a tempter. His own children he tempts first, and draws them to sin, and afterwards torments, when thereby he has brought them to ruin; but this child of God he tormented with an affliction, and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. That which he aimed at was to make…
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