Job 2:5

But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, ¹  and he will no doubt ²  curse you to your face!”

Le 24:15; 1Ch 21:17; Job 1:5,11; Job 1:11; Job 2:9; Job 19:20,21; Ps 32:3,4; Ps 38:2-7; Ps 39:10; Isa 8:21

¹ sn The “bones and flesh” are idiomatic for the whole person, his physical and his psychical/spiritual being (see further H. W. Wolff, Anthropology of the Old Testament, 26-28).

² sn This is the same oath formula found in 1:11; see the note there.