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Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
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Verse 4. Skin: a proverbial expressing, denoting that a man will part with any thing sooner than his life, ( Calmet.) or health. Bible.—Satan hints, that if those inestimable blessings should be endangered, ( Calmet.) Job would shew his real sentiments. Bible.—Skin was formerly used instead of money, at Sparta. Senec. Ben. verse 14. and so forth Yet perhaps not in the time of Job.
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