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Job 2:7 — So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

So went		1Ki 22:22
sore boils		Shechin rā, supposed to be the Judham, or black leprosy, of the Arabs, termed Elephantiasis by the Greeks, from its rendering the skin, like that of the elephant, scabrous, dark coloured, and furrowed all over with tubercles. This loathsome and most afflictive disease is accompanied with most intolerable itching. Job 30:17-19,30; Exd 9:9-11; Deu 28:27,35; Rev 16:11
from the sole		Isa 1:6; Isa 3:17

Correlating Passages

So went

1Ki 22:22

And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade [him], and prevail also: go forth, and do so.

sore boils

	Job 30:17	My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
	Job 30:18	By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
	Job 30:19	He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
	Job 30:30	My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
	Exd 9:9	And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
	Exd 9:10	And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth [with] blains upon man, and upon beast.
	Exd 9:11	And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boil was upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
	Deu 28:27	The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
	Deu 28:35	The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
	Rev 16:11	And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

from the sole

	Isa 1:6	From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
	Isa 3:17	Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 2:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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