Job 2

Job Loses His Health

11Again 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 2considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man 3fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still 4holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to 5ruin him without cause.” 4Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 56However, put forth Your hand now, and 7touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face.” 6So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your 8power, only spare his life.”

7Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with 9sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while 10he 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. 11Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” 12In 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 13Temanite, Bildad the 14Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to 15sympathize 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 16tore his robe and they 17threw dust over their heads toward the sky. 1318Then 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.