1. Job 2:4 (ESV)
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Commentary on Job 2:4 (Summary)

Job 2:4 (ESV)

4 Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Yet Satan persists: Job only fears God for the sake of reward, not out of love. Satan shows himself to be ever the accuser.

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