Job 2

Chapter 2

Job Loses His Health

^1aAgain there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

²The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

³The Lord said to Satan, “Have you ¹considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man ²fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still ^aholds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ³ruin him without cause.”

⁴Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

⁵“^aHowever, put forth Your hand now, and ^btouch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.”

⁶So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your ¹power, only spare his life.”

⁷Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with ^asore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

⁸And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while ^ahe was sitting among the ashes.

⁹Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. ^aShall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” ^bIn all this Job did not sin with his lips.

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the ^aTemanite, Bildad the ^bShuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^csympathize with him and comfort him.

¹²When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them ^atore his robe and they ^bthrew dust over their heads toward the sky.

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