Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 2:1-13
The Prologue (continued)
Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him.
The Prologue (continued)
Job's second trial. He refuses to renounce God when afflicted with an excruciating disease. Three friends come to comfort him.
CHAPTER II _The sons of God once more present themselves before him; and_ _Satan comes also, accusing Job as a person whose steadfastness_ _would be soon shaken, provided his body were to be subjec...
AGAIN THERE WAS A DAY ... - See the notes at Job 1:6. These seasons are represented as periodical, when the angels came, as it were, to make report to God of what they had observed and done. The Chald...
CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. Jehovah's second challenge and Satan's answer (Job 2:1)_ 2. Job stricken (Job 2:7) 3. Job's wife, Job's answer and victory (Job 2:9) Job 2
THE NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND CONVERSATION BETWEEN YAHWEH AND THE SATAN AND ITS ISSUES. Again the heavenly council comes together, and Yahweh reproaches the Satan with instigating Him to bring undeserve...
WAS. came to be. A DAY. the fit, or usual. THE SONS OF GOD. See note on Job 1:6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4 and App-23. SATAN. the Adversary....
Job 2:1-10. Job's second trial and its issue: he sinned not with his lips How long time intervened between Job's first trial and the second is not stated. The Targum seems to conjecture a year. The n...
_SATAN AGAIN CALUMINATES JOB BEFORE GOD, WHOSE BODY GOD PERMITS HIM TO AFFLICT, BUT NOT SO AS TO TAKE AWAY HIS LIFE. JOB IS SMITTEN BY SATAN WITH SORE BOILS. HE REPROVES HIS WIFE. HIS THREE FRIENDS, E...
6. The second trialbodily suffering (Job 2:1-8) TEXT 2:1-8 2 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to presen...
_AGAIN THERE WAS A DAY WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD, AND SATAN CAME ALSO AMONG THEM TO PRESENT HIMSELF BEFORE THE LORD._ A day - appointed for the angels giving an...
In chapter 1, Satan (the devil) wanted Job to insult God. Job refused to obey Satan. So Job was still a good man. Job had many troubles. He lost everything. His children were dead. But Job still respe...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 2 SATAN OPPOSES JOB AGAIN...
II. (1) AND SATAN CAME ALSO. — See Job 1:7. St. Peter applies to Satan the verb from which we have _peripatetic. _...
וַ יְהִ֣י הַ יֹּ֔ום וַ יָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י
V. THE DILEMMA OF FAITH Job 2:1 As the drama proceeds to unfold the conflict between Divine grace in the human soul and those chaotic influences which hold the mind in doubt or drag it back into den...
“AMONG THE ASHES” Job 2:1 It gives God deep pleasure when He can point to one of His servants who has borne fiery trial with unwavering patience and faith. The adversary comes back from his restless,...
Again the solemn council met, and again Satan was present. The Most High uttered the same estimate of His servant as before, adding thereto a declaration of Job's victory in the conflict which had tak...
Again there was a day when the (a) sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and (b) Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. (a) That is, the angels, (Job 1:6)....
_Day. Job had been under trial for some time, perhaps a year. (Calmet)_...
CONTENTS In the former Chapter we find Satan tempting Job, in some very heavy and trying afflictions of Job's family and circumstances; and Job triumphant. In this Chapter we have the adversary makin...
From Riches to Ashes I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study of the first Chapter of Job, we saw heavenly beings gathered to give an account to the Lord - and satan was amongst them! 1. satan accused...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. In Job we have man put to the test; we might say, with our present knowledge, man renewed by grace, an upright man and righteous in his ways, in ord...
AGAIN, THERE WAS A DAY, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD CAME TO PRESENT THEMSELVES BEFORE THE LORD,.... When good men, professors of religion, met together by agreement to worship the Lord; the Targum calls them...
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. Ver. 1. _Again there was a day_] Whether the...
_Again there was a day_ Another appointed season, some convenient time after the former calamities. Heath translates ויהי הוים, _vajehi hajom, Again it was the day._ Of this and the two next verses, s...
Again there was a day, some time after Satan had exhausted his efforts to shake the piety of Job by the destruction of his property and the slaughter of his children, WHEN THE SONS OF GOD, the angels,...
JOB STRICKEN WITH A SEVERE DISEASE...
SATAN INFLICTS BODILY SUFFERING ON HIM (vv.1-10), Another day comes when Satan presents himself to God among the sons of God, and his response to God's first question was the same as in Chapter 1. T...
WE find the same scene repeated that we saw in the previous chapter. We should note that Satan does not give up easily, he is persistent, and he does not cry uncle when he fails. In addition, Satan s...
JOB CHAPTER 2 Satan's second appearance before God: Job's character continuing the same, condemneth Satan, JOB 2:1. Satan judgeth him not sufficiently tried, unless his body suffer; and so obtaineth l...
Job 2:1 day H3117 sons H1121 God H430 came H935 (H8799) present H3320 (H8692) LORD H3068 Satan H
SATAN See (Job 2:2); (Job 2:6); (Psalms 109:6); (Genesis 3:1); ...
CONTENTS: Job in Satan's seive. Family, property and health gone. His three friends. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Satan, Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar. CONCLUSION: One of the greatest evidences of God's love to t...
Job 2:1. _There was a day when the sons of God &c._ As on the former chapter, Job 2:6. Job 2:4. _Skin for skin._ Septuagint, “skin after skin.” Men's riches in the first periods of society very much c...
_And Satan came also among them._ SPIRITUAL AGENCIES, GOOD AND EVIL, IN SICKNESS This is one of those mysterious Chapter s of Holy Scripture wherein God hath graciously vouchsafed, for the strengthen...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 2:1 Job’s second test is like the first (Job 1:6), but includes an attack on his health. ⇐...
NOTES Job 2:4. “_Skin for skin; yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life_.” The expression “skin for skin” acknowledged to be a proverbial one. Its precise meaning not so obvious, though its...
EXPOSITION JOB 2:1 This chapter concludes the "Introductory section." It consists of three parts. Job 2:1 contain an account of Satan's second appearance in the courts of heaven, and of a second coll...
So back again to the heavenly scene. Another day and again the sons of God are presenting themselves before Jehovah, and Satan is coming with them to present himself before the LORD (Job 2:1). I hav...
Hebrews 1:14; Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 6:2; Job 1:6; Luke 1:19...
HEAVEN'S CONTROVERSY CONCERNING JOB Job 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. God's everlasting eye watches over His children. When Satan made his second entrance into the presence of God, he discovered that t...