So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot unto the crown of his head.
All Commentaries on Job 2:7 Go To Job 2
Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
How ‘Satan goes forth from the presence of the Lord,’ is shewn by the remarks which have been already [some Mss. add ‘often’] made above. It goes on;
"And smote Job with sore boils, from the sole of his foot unto his crown."
8. Strokes are to be estimated in two ways, viz. to consider either of what kind, or how great. For being many they are often made right by their quality, and being heavy by their quantity, i.e. when, if they be many, they be not heavy, and if they be heavy, they be not many; in order to shew, then, how by the sharpness of the stroke the adversary flamed against the holy man, not only in the badness of the kind, but also in the heaviness of the amount: to prove the quality, it is said, And smote Job with sore boils; and to teach the quantity, from the sole of his foot unto his crown. Plainly, that nothing might be void of glory in his soul, in whose body there is no part void of pain.
