Job 2
1 Og det skete en Dag, der Guds Børn kom for at fremstille sig for Herren, da kom ogsaa Satan midt iblandt dem for at fremstille sig for Herren.
On 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 Da sagde Herren til Satan: Hvorfra kommer du? og Satan svarede Herren og sagde: Fra at gaa omkring i Landet og vandre om derudi.
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
3 Og Herren sagde til Satan: Har du givet Agt paa min Tjener Job? thi der er ingen som han i Landet, en oprigtig og retskaffen Mand, som frygter Gud og viger fra det onde, og han holder endnu fast ved sin Retsindighed; men du har tilskyndet mig imod ham at ødelægge ham uden Aarsag.
Then 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 Da svarede Satan Herren og sagde: Hud for Hud, ja alt det, en Mand har, giver han for sit Liv.
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
5 Dog udræk nu din Haand og rør ved hans Ben og hans Kød; hvad gælder det, om han ikke skal fornægte dig lige for dit Ansigt?
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6 Og Herren sagde til Satan: Se, han være i din Haand; dog var hans Liv!
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
7 Da for Satan ud fra Herrens Ansigt og slog Job med onde Bylder fra hans Fodsaal og indtil hans Isse.
So 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.
8 Og han tog sig et Potteskaar til at skrabe sig med, og han sad midt i Asken.
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
9 Og hans Hustru sagde til ham: Holder du endnu fast ved din Retsindighed? velsign Gud og dø!
Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 Men han sagde til hende: Du taler, ligesom en af de daarlige Kvinder taler; skulde vi alene tage imod det gode af Gud og ikke tage imod det onde? I alt dette syndede Job ikke med sine Læber.
“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.
11 Og der Jobs tre Venner hørte al den Ulykke, som var kommen over ham, da kom de, hver fra sit Sted: Themaniten Elifas og Sukiten Bildad og Naamathiten Zofar, og de forenede sig med hverandre for at komme at vise ham Medynk og trøste ham.
Now 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.
12 Men der de opløftede deres Øjne langtfra, da kendte de ham ikke, og de opløftede deres Røst og græd, og de sønderrev hver sin Kappe, og de kastede Støv paa deres Hoveder op imod Himmelen.
When 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.
13 Og de sade hos ham paa Jorden syv Dage og syv Nætter, og ingen talte et Ord til ham; thi de saa, at Pinen var saare stor.
Then 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.
