Job 2
1 And it came to pass on a certain day, that the angels of God came to stand before the Lord, and the devil came among them to stand before the Lord.
Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also amongst them to present himself before the LORD.
2 And the Lord, said to the devil, Whence come you? Then the devil said before the Lord, I am come from going through the world, and walking about the whole earth.
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 And the Lord said to the devil, Hast you then observed my servant Job, that there is none of [men] upon the earth like him, a harmless, true, blameless, godly man, abstaining from all evil? and he yet cleaves to innocence, whereas you has told [me] to destroy his substance without cause?
The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin, all that a man has will he give as a ransom for his life.
Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 Nay, but put forth your hand, and touch his bones and his flesh: verily he will bless you to [your] face.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 And the Lord said to the devil, Behold, I deliver him up to you; only save his life.
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 So the devil went out from the Lord, and struck Job with sore boils from [his] feet to [his] head.
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 And he took a potsherd to scrape away the discharge, and sat upon a dung-heap outside the city.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat amongst the ashes.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 But he looked on her, and said to her, You have spoken like one of the foolish women. If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? In all these things that happened to him, Job sinned not at all with his lips before God.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.
11 Now his three friends having heard of all the evil that was come upon him, came to him each from his own country: Eliphaz the king of the Thaemans, Baldad sovereign of the Saucheans, Sophar king of he Minaeans: and they came to him with one accord, to comfort and to visit him.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathise with him and to comfort him.
12 And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; and they cried with a loud voice, and wept, and tore every one his garment, and sprinkled dust upon [their heads],
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognise him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads towards the sky.
13 and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.
So 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.
