Text -- Job 2:5 (NET)

2:5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!”

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 2:5

¹ sn The “bones and flesh” are idiomatic for the whole person, his physical and his psychical/spiritual being (see further H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 26-28).

² sn This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there.