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Job 2:2-12

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2 The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD and said, "From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it."
3 The LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered * * My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still 1holds fast his integrity, although you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause."
4 Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 "2However, put forth Your hand now, and 3touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You to Your face."
6 So the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power, only spare his life."
7 Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and smote Job with 4sore boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
8 And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while 5he was sitting among the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!"
10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. 6Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" 7In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the 8Temanite, Bildad the 9Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to 10sympathize with him and comfort him.
12 When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them 11tore his robe and they 12threw dust over their heads toward the sky.
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Job 2:2-12 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 12

  • 1. Job 27:5, 6
  • 2. Job 1:11
  • 3. Job 19:20
  • 4. Deuteronomy 28:35; Job 7:5; Job 13:28; Job 30:17, 18, 30
  • 5. Job 42:6; Jeremiah 6:26; Ezekiel 27:30; Jonah 3:6
  • 6. Job 1:21
  • 7. Job 1:22; Psalms 39:1; James 1:12
  • 8. Genesis 36:11; Job 6:19; Jeremiah 49:7
  • 9. Genesis 25:2
  • 10. Job 42:11; Romans 12:15
  • 11. Job 1:20
  • 12. Joshua 7:6; Nehemiah 9:1; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 27:30

Footnotes 4

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