Job 2

New American Standard Bible 2020

Job Loses His Health

1 1Again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and 2Satan 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 3considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man 4fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still 5holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to 6ruin 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 7However, reach out with Your hand now, and 8touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!” 6So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your 9power, only spare his life.”

7Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with 10severe boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. 8And Job took a piece of pottery to scrape himself while 11he was sitting in the ashes.

9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold firm your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10But he said to her, “You are speaking as one of the foolish women speaks. 12Shall we actually accept good from God but not accept adversity?” 13Despite all this, Job did not sin with his lips.

11Now when Job’s three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, they came, each one from his own place--Eliphaz the 14Temanite, Bildad the 15Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to 16sympathize with him and comfort him. 12When they 17looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them 18tore his robe, and they 19threw dust over their heads toward the sky. 13 20Then 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.

Notes

1. Job 2:1 Job 1:6-8 ↩
2. Job 2:1 Heb ha-satan; i.e., the adversary, and so throughout the ch ↩
3. Job 2:3 Lit set your heart to ↩
4. Job 2:3 Or revering ↩
5. Job 2:3 Job 27:5, 6 ↩
6. Job 2:3 Lit swallow him up ↩
7. Job 2:5 Job 1:11 ↩
8. Job 2:5 Job 19:20 ↩
9. Job 2:6 Lit hand ↩
10. Job 2:7 Deut 28:35; Job 7:5; 13:28; 30:17, 18, 30 ↩
11. Job 2:8 Job 42:6; Jer 6:26; Ezek 27:30; Jon 3:6 ↩
12. Job 2:10 Job 1:21 ↩
13. Job 2:10 Job 1:22; Ps 39:1; James 1:12 ↩
14. Job 2:11 Gen 36:11; Job 6:19; Jer 49:7 ↩
15. Job 2:11 Gen 25:2 ↩
16. Job 2:11 Job 42:11; Rom 12:15 ↩
17. Job 2:12 Lit raised their eyes ↩
18. Job 2:12 Job 1:20 ↩
19. Job 2:12 Josh 7:6; Neh 9:1; Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30 ↩
20. Job 2:13 Gen 50:10; Ezek 3:15 ↩

Job Loses His Health

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