Ayub 2
1 Pada suatu hari datanglah anak-anak Allah menghadap TUHAN dan di antara mereka datang juga Iblis untuk menghadap TUHAN.
Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
2 Maka bertanyalah TUHAN kepada Iblis: "Dari mana engkau?" Lalu jawab Iblis kepada TUHAN: "Dari perjalanan mengelilingi dan menjelajah bumi."
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 Firman TUHAN kepada Iblis: "Apakah engkau memperhatikan hamba-Ku Ayub? Sebab tiada seorangpun di bumi seperti dia, yang demikian saleh dan jujur, yang takut akan Allah dan menjauhi kejahatan. Ia tetap tekun dalam kesalehannya, meskipun engkau telah membujuk Aku melawan dia untuk mencelakakannya tanpa alasan."
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 Lalu jawab Iblis kepada TUHAN: "Kulit ganti kulit! Orang akan memberikan segala yang dipunyainya ganti nyawanya.
Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 Tetapi ulurkanlah tangan-Mu dan jamahlah tulang dan dagingnya, ia pasti mengutuki Engkau di hadapan-Mu."
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 Maka firman TUHAN kepada Iblis: "Nah, ia dalam kuasamu; hanya sayangkan nyawanya."
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 Kemudian Iblis pergi dari hadapan TUHAN, lalu ditimpanya Ayub dengan barah yang busuk dari telapak kakinya sampai ke batu kepalanya.
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 Lalu Ayub mengambil sekeping beling untuk menggaruk-garuk badannya, sambil duduk di tengah-tengah abu.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
9 Maka berkatalah isterinya kepadanya: "Masih bertekunkah engkau dalam kesalehanmu? Kutukilah Allahmu dan matilah!"
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 Tetapi jawab Ayub kepadanya: "Engkau berbicara seperti perempuan gila! Apakah kita mau menerima yang baik dari Allah, tetapi tidak mau menerima yang buruk?" Dalam kesemuanya itu Ayub tidak berbuat dosa dengan bibirnya.
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 did not sin with his lips.
11 Ketika ketiga sahabat Ayub mendengar kabar tentang segala malapetaka yang menimpa dia, maka datanglah mereka dari tempatnya masing-masing, yakni: Elifas, orang Teman, dan Bildad, orang Suah, serta Zofar, orang Naama. Mereka bersepakat untuk mengucapkan belasungkawa kepadanya dan menghibur dia.
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 sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 Ketika mereka memandang dari jauh, mereka tidak mengenalnya lagi. Lalu menangislah mereka dengan suara nyaring. Mereka mengoyak jubahnya, dan menaburkan debu di kepala terhadap langit.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
13 Lalu mereka duduk bersama-sama dia di tanah selama tujuh hari tujuh malam. Seorangpun tidak mengucapkan sepatah kata kepadanya, karena mereka melihat, bahwa sangat berat penderitaannya.
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.
