Job 2

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

During another heavenly assembly, Satan appears before the LORD, who points out Job's continued integrity despite previous trials. Satan argues that Job will curse God if physical suffering is inflicted upon him, prompting the LORD to permit Satan to strike Job's body while sparing his life. Consequently, Satan afflicts Job with painful boils from head to toe, causing him to sit among the ashes scraping himself with a broken pottery shard while his wife urges him to curse God and die, a proposal Job rejects. Hearing of his misfortunes, Job's three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—travel to visit him, and upon seeing his altered state, they weep, tear their robes, throw dust on their heads, and sit with him on the ground in silence for seven days and seven nights due to the intensity of his suffering.

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¹On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him. ²“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.” ³Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.” ⁴“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life. ⁵But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.” ⁶“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.” ⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head. ⁸And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes. ⁹Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!” ¹⁰“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said. ¹¹Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him. ¹²When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head. ¹³Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

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