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Chapter 2
- 2:1
- Again there was a day when the
sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came
also among them to present himself before the LORD.
- 2:2
- And the LORD said unto Satan, From
whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going
to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
- 2:3
- And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast
thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the
earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and
escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou
movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
- 2:4
- And Satan answered the LORD, and
said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his
life.
- 2:5
- But put forth thine hand now, and
touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
- 2:6
- And the LORD said unto Satan,
Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
- 2:7
- So went Satan forth from the
presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of
his foot unto his crown.
- 2:8
- And he took him a potsherd to
scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
- 2:9
- Then said his wife unto him, Dost
thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
- 2:10
- But he said unto her, Thou
speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive
good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this
did not Job sin with his lips.
- 2:11
- Now when Job's three friends heard
of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his
own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar
the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to
mourn with him and to comfort him.
- 2:12
- And when they lifted up their eyes
afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and
they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads
toward heaven.
- 2:13
- So they sat down with him upon the
ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him:
for they saw that his grief was very great.
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