Job 2

¹Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the Lord.

²And the Lord said to Satan , From where have you come ? Satan answered the Lord and said , From going to and fro on the earth , and from walking up and down on it.

³And the Lord said to Satan , Have you considered my servant Job , that there is none like him on the earth , a blameless and upright man , who fears God and turns away from evil ? He still holds fast his integrity , although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason .

⁴Then Satan answered the Lord and said , Skin for skin ! All that a man has he will give for his life .

⁵But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh , and he will curse you to your face .

⁶And the Lord said to Satan , Behold , he is in your hand ; only spare his life .

⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head .

⁸And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes .

⁹Then his wife said to him, Do you still hold fast your integrity ? Curse God and die .

¹⁰But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women would speak . Shall we receive good from God , and shall we not receive evil ? In all this Job did not sin with his lips .

¹¹Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place , Eliphaz the Temanite , Bildad the Shuhite , and Zophar the Naamathite . They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.

¹²And when they saw him from a distance , they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept , and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven .

¹³And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights , and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great .