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1 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 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 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 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 renounce you
to your face.”
6 The
LORD said to Satan,
“Behold, he is
in your hand. Only
spare his life.”
7 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 He
took for himself
a potsherd to
scrape himself
with, and he
sat among
the ashes.
9 Then
his wife said to
him, “Do you still
maintain your
integrity? Renounce God, and
die.”
10 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
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 When
they lifted up
their eyes from
a distance,
and didn’t recognize
him, they raised
their voices, and
wept; and they each
tore his robe,
and sprinkled dust
on their heads
toward the sky.
13 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.