Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
⛓ Read Job 2 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh' echoes the Lord handing Job over to the Satan 'in thine hand; but save his life' — affliction of the body permitted while the person is ultimately preserved. The structure of bodily harm under satanic agency with a saving limit gives moderate Coherence; the verbal link is conceptual rather than lexical.
Medium confidenceHanding Hymenaeus and Alexander 'over to Satan' so they may be disciplined echoes the LORD's delivering of Job into Satan's power within set limits for a corrective end. The motif of God permitting satanic affliction for a purpose informs the disciplinary act. Job supplies the pattern of a measured handing-over.
Medium confidence