Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Alexander Oldernes <alexander AT oldernes.no>]

`WR B`D-`WR

Alternative translations of B`D is "away from" or "in behalf of".

I've always thought of it as "take some skin away from his skin",
or that the skin is in connection with "life" - "Skin in behalf of skin! ... 
He will give it in behalf of his life".
`WR B`D-`WR ... B`D NPSHW

Satan thought of Job as a selfish person that even would trade his life to 
escape from his "missing skin".
He therefore gave him a skin desease (2:7,8) and influenced his wife to 
suggest that he should trade his life for relief (2:9).

Alexander Oldernes
Norway


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:56 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Job 2:4 Skin for Skin


> Hello,
> 
> I have been trying to figure out for some time what the phrase *skin for 
> skin* - ('WR B'R 'WR) means exactly - or even approximately.  It does not 
> appear anywhere else in the Bible.  The nearest parallel I can find is of 
> course *an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth* (Lev 24:20) but the wording 
> is different ('YN THT 'YN).  Also the context is different.  In Lev 24:20 
> there is a balancing of injuries.  However in Job, there is no obvious (at 
> least to me) balancing of lost or gained skin.  Ha-Shatan tell Yahweh to 
> *strike his flesh and bone* some there is some theme of body parts but the 
> phase is still opaque to me.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> --
> Jack Tladatsi
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