Job 2:9

His wife. The Targum gives her name as Dinah, from which some have concluded that Job was the son-in-law of Jacob. This is, of course, only tradition.

Integrity. See on ch. 2:3.

Curse God. Job’s wife tries to persuade Job to do what Satan wanted him to do. She says in effect, “What good is your virtue doing you? You might as well curse God and take the consequences.” The LXX greatly enlarges the speech of Job’s wife: “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.”

The origin of the above statement is uncertain. It is not in any Hebrew manuscript now extant, and there are reasons for doubting whether it was in the earliest manuscripts of the LXX.

His wife. The Targum gives her name as Dinah, from which some have concluded that Job was the son-in-law of Jacob. This is, of course, only tradition.

Integrity. See on Job 2:3.

Curse God. Job’s wife tries to persuade Job to do what Satan wanted him to do. She says in effect, “What good is your virtue doing you? You might as well curse God and take the consequences.” The LXX greatly enlarges the speech of Job’s wife: “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.”

The origin of the above statement is uncertain. It is not in any Hebrew manuscript now extant, and there are reasons for doubting whether it was in the earliest manuscripts of the LXX.