Job 1:11 (GNV)

Passage

But stretch out now thine hand and touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

Nearby Context

Job 1:9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

Job 1:10 Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, and about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Job 1:11 But stretch out now thine hand and touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.

Job 1:12 Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.

Job 1:13 And on a day, when his sonnes and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brothers house,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "stretch", "thine", "hand", "touch", "hath", "blaspheme", "thee", and "face". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "stretch" and "thine", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 10's "Hast thou not made an hedge about..." into verse 12's "Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan Lo...", so "stretch" and "thine" belong inside that flow. In Job context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "stretch" and "thine" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.