Job 2

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Job Loses His Health

¹On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan^a also came with them to present himself before Him.

¹And there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before YHWH, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before YHWH.

²“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan.

“From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”

²And YHWH said to Satan, “From where have you come to here?” And Satan answered YHWH and said, “From roaming on the earth and walking back and forth on it.”

³Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”

³And YHWH said to Satan, “Have you set your heart toward My servant Job, how there is no one like him on the earth, a man complete and upright, fearing God and turning aside from evil? And still he holds firmly to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to devour him without cause.”

⁴“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

⁴But Satan answered YHWH and said, “Skin for skin—and all that is unto the man, he will give for his life.

⁵But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

⁵But now stretch out Your hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh—if he will not curse You to Your face!”

⁶“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”

⁶And YHWH said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, yet his life you must spare.”

⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.

⁷And Satan went forth from the face of YHWH, and he struck Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot even up to the crown of his head.

⁸And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

⁸And he took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he was sitting in the midst of the ashes.

⁹Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse^a God and die!”

⁹And his wife said to him, “Are you still holding firmly onto your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?”

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

¹⁰And he said to her, “You speak like the speaking of one of the foolish women! Shall we receive the good from God, and not also receive the bad?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

Job’s Three Friends

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

¹¹And three friends of Job heard of all this evil that had come upon him, and they came, each man from his place—Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—and they met together to come to nod to him and to comfort him.

¹²When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

¹²And they lifted their eyes from afar, and they did not recognize him. And they lifted their voices and wept, and each man tore his robe, and they scattered dust upon their heads toward the heavens.

¹³Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

¹³Then they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and there was no speaking to him a word, for they saw that his pain was very great.