Job 2

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1. 1Again 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.
2. 2The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."
3. 3The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast to his integrity, even though you moved me against him to destroy him without cause."
4. 4Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life."
5. 5"But stretch out your hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."
6. 6The LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand; but save his life."
7. 7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot to his crown.
8. 8And he took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and he sat down among the ashes.
9. 9Then his wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die."
10. 10But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11. 11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12. 12And when they lifted up their eyes from afar and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voices and wept. And each one tore his mantle and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13. 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.