But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”
Satan, that sworn enemy to God and all good men, is here pushing forward his malicious prosecution of Job, whom he hated because God loved him, and did all he could to separate between him and his God, to sow discord and make mischief between them, urging God to afflict him and then urging him to blaspheme God.
Commenting on Job 2:1-6
And the Lord said unto Satan, behold, he is in thine hand,.... Well may a behold be prefixed to this, it being matter of wonder and astonishment that a saint and servant of God should be permitted to be in the hand of Satan; which yet must not be so understood; as if he was off of, and no more upon the heart of God...
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. (f) Meaning, his own person.