And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has [is] in your power; only do not lay a hand on his [person."] So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

"But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!"

Therefore the anger of the LORD is aroused against His people; He has stretched out His hand against them And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their carcasses [were] as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand [is] stretched out still.

But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; It touches you, and you are troubled.

" Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends, For the hand of God has struck me!

So Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

[Saying,] "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.

So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Thus Job did regularly.

And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of the LORD."

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!"

They will pass through it hard pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

" Your words have been harsh against Me," Says the LORD, "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against You?'

You have said, 'It is useless to serve God; What profit [is it] that we have kept His ordinance, And that we have walked as mourners Before the LORD of hosts?

And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.

They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.

And great hail from heaven fell upon men, [each hailstone] about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.