Job 2:8-13

8 And he took ¹a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in ²the ashes.

9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still ³hold fast your integrity? ⁴Curse God and die."

10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the ⁵foolish women would speak. ⁶Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"^[a]⁷In all this Job did not ⁸sin with his lips.

Job's Three Friends

11 Now when Job's three ⁹friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz ¹⁰the Temanite, Bildad ¹¹the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to ¹²show him sympathy and comfort him.

12 And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they ¹³tore their robes and sprinkled ¹⁴dust on their heads toward heaven.

13 And they sat with him on the ground ¹⁵seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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Job 2:8-13 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. Job 41:30
2. Job 42:6; Ezekiel 27:30; Jonah 3:6; Matthew 11:21
3. ver. 3
4. [See ver. 5 above]
5. [Psalms 74:18, 22]
6. [James 5:10, 11]
7. Job 1:22
8. [Psalms 39:1]
9. [Proverbs 17:17]
10. See 1 Chronicles 1:45
11. Genesis 25:2; 1 Chronicles 1:32
12. Job 42:11; [Romans 12:15]
13. See Genesis 37:29
14. See Joshua 7:6; Nehemiah 9:1; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 27:30
15. Ezekiel 3:15; [Genesis 50:10]

Footnotes 1

[a]. Or disaster; also verse 11

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