Job 2
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1 Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD. 2The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head. 8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes. 9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?”
In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips. 11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. 12When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky. 13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
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Job 2
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Job loses his health
1When the angels#2.1 angels: See the note at 15.8. gathered around the LORD again, Satan#2.1 Satan: See the note at 1.6. was there with them, 2and the LORD asked, “Satan, where have you been?”
Satan replied, “I have been going all over the earth.”
3Then the LORD asked, “What do you think of my servant Job? No one on earth is like him—he is a truly good person, who respects me and refuses to do evil. And he hasn't changed, even though you persuaded me to destroy him for no reason.”
4Satan answered, “There's no pain like your own.#2.4 There's no pain like your own: The Hebrew text has “Skin for skin”, which was probably a popular saying. People will do anything to stay alive. 5Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face.”
6“All right!” the LORD replied. “Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him.” 7Satan left and caused painful sores to break out all over Job's body—from head to toe.
8Then Job sat on the ash heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery, 9his wife asked, “Why do you still trust God? Why don't you curse him and die?”
10Job replied, “Don't talk like a fool! If we accept blessings from God, we must accept trouble as well.” In all that happened, Job never once said anything against God.
Job's three friends
11Eliphaz from Teman, Bildad from Shuah, and Zophar from Naamah#2.11 Teman…Shuah…Naamah: Teman was a place in northern Edom; Shuah may have been a town on the River Euphrates or else further south, near the towns of Dedan and Sheba; Naamah may have been on the road between Beirut and Damascus, though its exact location is unknown. were three of Job's friends, and they heard about his troubles. So they agreed to visit Job and comfort him. 12When they came near enough to see Job, they could hardly recognize him. And in their great sorrow, they tore their clothes, then sprinkled dust on their heads and cried bitterly. 13For seven days and nights, they sat silently on the ground beside him, because they realized what terrible pain he was in.
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