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Job 2:9

NETBible	Then¹ his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity?² Curse³ God, and die!”⁴
NIV © biblegateway Job 2:9	His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"
NASB © biblegateway Job 2:9	Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!"
NLT © biblegateway Job 2:9	His wife said to him, "Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die."
MSG © biblegateway Job 2:9	His wife said, "Still holding on to your precious integrity, are you? Curse God and be done with it!"
BBE © SABDAweb Job 2:9	And his wife said to him, Are you still keeping your righteousness? Say a curse against God, and put an end to yourself.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 2:9	Then his wife said to him, "Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die."
NKJV © biblegateway Job 2:9	Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!"
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KJV	Then said <0559> (8799) his wife <0802> unto him, Dost thou still retain <02388> (8688) thine integrity <08538>_? curse <01288> (8761) God <0430>_, and die <04191> (8798)_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 2:9	Then his wife <0802> said <0559> to him, "Do you still <05750> hold <02388> fast <02388> your integrity <08538> ? Curse <01288> God <0430> and die <04191> !"
LXXM	cronou <5550> N-GSM de <1161> PRT pollou <4183> A-GSM probebhkotov <4260> V-RAPGS eipen {V-AAI-3S} autw <846> D-DSM h <3588> T-NSF gunh <1135> N-NSF autou <846> D-GSM mecri <3360> PREP tinov <5100> I-GSN karterhseiv <2594> V-FAI-2S legwn <3004> V-PAPNS (2:9a) idou <2400> INJ anamenw <362> V-PAI-1S cronon <5550> N-ASM eti <2089> ADV mikron <3398> A-ASM prosdecomenov <4327> V-PMPNS thn <3588> T-ASF elpida <1680> N-ASF thv <3588> T-GSF swthriav <4991> N-GSF mou <1473> P-GS (2:9b) idou <2400> INJ gar <1063> PRT hfanistai {V-RMI-3S} sou <4771> P-GS to <3588> T-NSN mnhmosunon <3422> N-NSN apo <575> PREP thv <3588> T-GSF ghv <1065> N-GSF uioi <5207> N-NPM kai <2532> CONJ yugaterev <2364> N-NPF emhv <1699> A-GSF koiliav <2836> N-GSF wdinev <5604> N-NPF kai <2532> CONJ ponoi <4192> N-NPM ouv <3739> R-APM eiv <1519> PREP to <3588> T-ASN kenon <2756> A-ASN ekopiasa <2872> V-AAI-1S meta <3326> PREP mocywn <3449> N-GPM (2:9c) su <4771> P-NS te <5037> PRT autov <846> D-NSM en <1722> PREP sapria {N-DSF} skwlhkwn <4663> N-GPM kayhsai <2521> V-PMI-2S dianuktereuwn <1273> V-PAPNS aiyriov {A-NSM} (2:9d) kagw {CONJ} planhtiv {N-NSF} kai <2532> CONJ latriv {N-NSF} topon <5117> N-ASM ek <1537> PREP topou <5117> N-GSM periercomenh <4022> V-PMPNS kai <2532> CONJ oikian <3614> N-ASF ex <1537> PREP oikiav <3614> N-GSF prosdecomenh <4327> V-PMPNS ton <3588> T-ASM hlion <2246> N-ASM pote <4218> ADV dusetai <1417> V-FMI-3S ina <2443> CONJ anapauswmai <373> V-AMS-1S twn <3588> T-GPM mocywn <3449> N-GPM kai <2532> CONJ twn <3588> T-GPF odunwn <3601> N-GPF ai <3739> R-NPF me <1473> P-AS nun <3568> ADV sunecousin <4912> V-PAI-3P (2:9e) alla <235> CONJ eipon {V-AAD-2S} ti <5100> I-ASN rhma <4487> N-ASN eiv <1519> PREP kurion <2962> N-ASM kai <2532> CONJ teleuta <5053> V-PAD-2S
NET [draft] ITL	Then his wife <0802> said <0559> to him, “Are you still <05750> holding firmly <02388> to your integrity <08538> ? Curse <01288> God <0430> , and die <04191> !”
HEBREW	tmw <04191> Myhla <0430> Krb <01288> Ktmtb <08538> qyzxm <02388> Kde <05750> wtsa <0802> wl <0> rmatw (2:9) <0559>

NETBible

Then¹ his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly to your integrity?² Curse³ God, and die!”⁴

NET Notes

¹tn The versions have some information here that is interesting, albeit fanciful. The Targum calls her “Dinah.” The LXX has “when a long time had passed.” But the whole rendering of the LXX is paraphrastic: “How long will you hold out, saying, ‘Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance?’ for behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows, and you yourself sit down to spend the night in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting sun, that I may rest from my labors and pains that now beset me, but say some word against the Lord and die.”

²sn See R. D. Moore, “The Integrity of Job,” CBQ 45 (1983): 17-31. The reference of Job’s wife to his “integrity” could be a precursor of the conclusion reached by Elihu in 32:2 where he charged Job with justifying himself rather than God.

³tn The verb is literally בָּרַךְ, (barakh, “bless”). As in the earlier uses, the meaning probably has more to do with renouncing God than of speaking a curse. The actual word may be taken as a theological euphemism for the verb קִלֵּל (qillel, “curse”). If Job’s wife had meant that he was trying to justify himself rather than God, “bless God” might be translated “speak well of God,” the resolution accepted by God in 42:7-8 following Job’s double confession of having spoken wrongly of God (40:3-5; 42:1-6).

³sn The church fathers were quick to see here again the role of the wife in the temptation – she acts as the intermediary between Satan and Job, pressing the cause for him. However, Job’s wife has been demonized falsely. Job did not say that she was a foolish woman, only that she was speaking like one of them (2:10). Also, Job did not exclude her from sharing in his suffering (“should we receive”). He evidently recognized that her words were the result of her personal loss and pain as well as the desire to see her husband’s suffering ended. When God gave instructions for the restoration of Job’s friends because of their foolish words (42:7-9), no mention is made of any need for Job’s wife to be restored.

⁴tn The imperative with the conjunction in this expression serves to express the certainty that will follow as the result or consequence of the previous imperative (GKC 324-25 §110.f).