Job 2:9
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And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

Leviticus 24:11
And when he had blasphemed the name, and had cursed it, he was brought to Moses. (Now his mother was called Salumith, the daughter of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Job 2:8
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Job 2:10
And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

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And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.

his wife.

Genesis 3:6,12 And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband, who did eat. . . .

1 Kings 11:4 And when he was now old, his heart was turned away by women to follow strange gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David, his father.

retain.

Job 2:3 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause.

Job 21:14,15 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. . . .

2 Kings 6:33 While he was yet speaking to them, the messenger appeared, who was coming to him. And he said: Behold, so great an evil is from the Lord: what shall I look for more from the Lord?

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

curse God.

Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Job 1:11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Context
Job Loses His Health
8And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill. 9And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless God and die.10And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.…
Lexicon
Then [Job's] wife
אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ (’iš·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 802: Woman, wife, female

said
וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to him,
לוֹ֙ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

“Do you still
עֹדְךָ֖ (‘ō·ḏə·ḵā)
Adverb | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

retain
מַחֲזִ֣יק (ma·ḥă·zîq)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

your integrity?
בְּתֻמָּתֶ֑ךָ (bə·ṯum·mā·ṯe·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8538: Innocence

Curse
בָּרֵ֥ךְ (bā·rêḵ)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1288: To kneel, to bless God, man, to curse

God
אֱלֹהִ֖ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and die!”
וָמֻֽת׃ (wā·muṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill


Additional Translations
Then Job's wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”Then said his wife to him, Do you still retain your integrity? curse God, and die.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long wilt thou hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, thy memorial is abolished from the earth, even thy sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and thou thyself sittest down to spend the nights 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 of the sun, that I may rest from my labours and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.

And his wife said to him, Dost thou still remain firm in thine integrity? curse God and die.

Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.

Then said his wife to him, Dost thou still retain thy integrity? curse God, and die.

Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

And his wife saith to him, 'Still thou art keeping hold on thine integrity: bless God and die.'
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