⁵ But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."

¹¹ But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face."

⁵ It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Thus did Job continually.

²¹ They shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall happen that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

¹⁰ Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

² For your arrows have pierced me, Your hand presses hard on me.

³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

⁷ For my loins are filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

³ When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

²⁰ My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

²¹ "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; For the hand of God has touched me.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."

¹⁷ David said to God, Isn't it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.

¹⁵ You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.