Job 2 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

• 1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came among them also, to present himself before the LORD.

• 2 And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” And Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”

• 3 And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil? And still he holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without a reason.”

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

• 5 But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse You to Your face.”

• 6 And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in Your hand; but spare his life.”

• 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

• 8 And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat down in the ashes.

• 9 Then said his wife to him, “Do You still retain your integrity? Curse God, and die!”

• 10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we accept good at the hand of God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

• 11 Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that has come upon him, each on came from his place - Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, because they had arranged a combined appointment to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

• 12 And 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 robe, and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven.

• 13 So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.