Matthew Henry Commentary Job 2:7-10

"So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown. And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die. 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." — Job 2:7-10 (ASV)

The devil tempts his own children, draws them to sin, and afterwards torments them when he has brought them to ruin. But this child of God, he tormented with affliction and then tempted to make a bad use of his affliction. He provoked Job to curse God. The disease was very grievous.

If at any time we are tried with severe and grievous illnesses, let us not think we are treated differently from how God sometimes deals with the best of His saints and servants. Job humbled himself under the mighty hand of God and accepted his condition. His wife was spared for him, to be a troubler and tempter to him.

Satan still endeavors to draw people from God, as he did our first parents, by suggesting harsh thoughts about Him, which are entirely false. But Job resisted and overcame the temptation. Shall we, guilty, polluted, worthless creatures, receive so many unmerited blessings from a just and holy God, and shall we refuse to accept the punishment of our sins when we suffer so much less than we deserve?

Let murmuring, as well as boasting, be done away with forever. Up to this point, Job stood the trial and appeared brightest in the furnace of affliction. There might be risings of corruption in his heart, but grace had the upper hand.