Job 2  New American Standard Bible

Job Loses His Health

2 ^(A)Again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and ^[a]Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord. ² The Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.” ³ The Lord said to Satan, “Have you ^[b]considered My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man ^[c]fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still ^(B)holds firm to his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ^[d]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 (C)However, reach out with Your hand now, and ^(D)touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face!” ⁶ So the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your ^[e]power, only spare his life.”

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

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

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, 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)sympathize with him and comfort him. ¹² When they ^[f]looked from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised 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.