Job 2

Satan’s Second Test of Job

2One day the sons of God ^ccame again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the Lord. ²The Lord asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

³Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, ^dwho fears God and turns away from evil. ^eHe still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”

⁴“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life. ⁵But stretch out Your hand and strike ^fhis flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

⁶“Very well,” the Lord told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.” ⁷So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ^g8Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes. ^hi

⁹His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. ^j

Job’s Three Friends

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, ^kBildad the Shuhite, ^land Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort ^mhim. ¹²When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, ⁿand each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. ^o13Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, ^pbut no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering ^qwas very intense.