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Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
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A Trial From Within
Commentators explain that one of the most painful trials is when temptation comes from those closest to us. Satan's strategy, as Matthew Henry notes, is often to use loved ones to suggest harsh, false thoughts about God. Job's wife, overwhelmed by grief, becomes an instrument for the very temptation Job had resisted: to abandon faith in the face of suffering.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then said his wife to him - Some remarkable additions are made by the ancient versions to this passage. The Chaldee renders it, “and “Dinah”…
19th Century
Anglican
Then said his wife. —So it is that a man’s foes are they of his own household (Micah 7:6;[Reference Matthew 1…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said his wife to him The Jews F7 , who affect to know everything, say, that Job's wife was Dinah, th…
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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 torm…
13th Century
Catholic
When Satan had received the power, he proceeded to execute it. The text continues, “So Satan went forth from the face of the Lord and afflicted…
