Job 2  Legacy Standard Bible

Satan Strikes Job’s Flesh

2 ^(A)Again it was the day that the sons of God came to stand before Yahweh, and Satan also came among them to stand himself before Yahweh. ² And Yahweh said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” ³ And Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you set your heart upon My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, ^[a]fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still ^(B)holds fast his integrity. So you incited Me against him to swallow him up in vain.” ⁴ Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. ^5 (C)However, send forth Your hand now, and ^(D)touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You in Your face.” ⁶ So Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.”

⁷ Then Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh and struck Job with ^(E)terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ⁸ And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while ^(F)he was sitting among the ashes.

⁹ Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” ¹⁰ But he said to her, “You speak as one of the wickedly foolish women speaks. ^(G)Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept calamity?” ^(H)In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job’s Three Friends

¹¹ Then Job’s three friends heard of all this calamity that had come upon him. So they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the ^(I)Temanite, Bildad the ^(J)Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to ^(K)console him and comfort him. ¹² Then they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, and they lifted up their voices and wept. And each of them ^(L)tore his robe, and they ^(M)threw dust over their heads toward the sky. ^13 (N)Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.