Job 2:8-13 (New International Version)
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Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.1
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His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity?2 Curse God and die!"3
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He replied, "You are talking like a foolisha woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"4 In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.5
Job's Three Friends
11 When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,6 Bildad the Shuhite7 and Zophar the Naamathite,8 heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.9 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him;10 they began to weep aloud,11 and they tore their robes12 and sprinkled dust on their heads.13 13 Then they sat on the ground14 with him for seven days and seven nights.15 No one said a word to him,16 because they saw how great his suffering was.Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)
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