Job 2:10

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

Key Reflection

Job's wife urges him to abandon his faith in God, suggesting that maintaining his integrity will lead to death. This reflects the internal struggle between steadfast trust in divine providence and the temptation to doubt or give up during suffering.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

As one of the foolish women speaketh -The word here rendered “foolish”נבלnâbâlfromנבלnâbêl, means properly stupid or foolish, and then wicked, abandoned, impious - the idea of “sin” and “folly” being closely connected in the Scriptures, or sin being regarded as supreme folly;1 Samuel 25:25;2 Samuel 3:33;Psalms 14:1;Psalms 53:2. The Arabs still use the word with the same compass of signification. “Gesenius.” The word is used here in the sense of “wicked;” and the idea is, that the sentiment which she uttered was impious, or was such as were on the lips of the wicked.

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