Job 2:1-10

Satan's Second Test of Job

1 One day the sons of God[a] came again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the Lord.
2 The Lord asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" "From roaming through the earth," Satan answered Him, "and walking around on it."
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.[b] He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause."
4 "Skin for skin!" Satan answered the Lord. "A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.
5 But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face."
6 "Very well," the Lord told Satan, "he is in your power; only spare his life."
7 So Satan left the Lord's presence and infected Job with incurable boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.[c]
8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.[d]
9 His wife said to him, "Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!"
10 "You speak as a foolish woman speaks," he told her. "Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?" Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[e]

Job 2:1-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 2

This chapter gives an account of a second trial of Job's constancy and integrity, the time and occasion of it, Job 2:1-3; the motion made for it by Satan, which being granted, he smote him from head to foot with sore boils, which he endured very patiently, Job 2:4-8; during which sad affliction he is urged by his wife to give up his integrity, which he bravely resisted, Job 2:9,10; and the chapter is concluded with an account of a visit of three of Job's friends, and of their conduct and behaviour towards him, Job 2:11-13.

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