The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Job 02
1 Again, on the day when God’s sons
came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to
present himself before Yahweh.
2 Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you
come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said,
“From going back and forth in the earth,
and from walking up and down in it.”
3 Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you consideredmy servantJob?
For there isno 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in
your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 So Satan went out from the presence of
Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores
from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 He took forhimself 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.