Job 2

1 On another day the angels[a] came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.
2 And the LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”
3 Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”
4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life.
5 But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.”
6 The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[b] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, 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.
12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.
13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

Cross References 28

  • 1. "fn" Genesis 6:2
  • 2. S Job 1:6
  • 3. S Genesis 3:1
  • 4. S Exodus 20:20; S Job 1:1,8
  • 5. Job 6:29; Job 13:18; Job 27:6; Job 31:6; Job 32:1; Job 40:8
  • 6. Job 9:17; Psalms 44:17
  • 7. S Job 1:10
  • 8. Job 16:8; Job 19:20; Job 33:21; Psalms 102:5; Lamentations 4:8
  • 9. S Exodus 20:7; S Job 1:11
  • 10. 2 Corinthians 12:7
  • 11. S Job 1:12
  • 12. S Deuteronomy 28:35; Job 7:5; S Job 16:16
  • 13. Genesis 18:27; Esther 4:3; Job 16:15; Job 19:9; Job 30:19; Job 42:6; Psalms 7:5; Isaiah 58:5; Isaiah 61:3; Jeremiah 6:26; Lamentations 3:29; Ezekiel 26:16; Ezekiel 27:30; Jnh 3:5-8,6; Matthew 11:21
  • 14. Job 6:29; Job 13:15; Job 27:5; Job 33:9; Job 35:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:8
  • 15. S Exodus 20:7; S 2 Kings 6:33
  • 16. S Job 1:21; S Ecclesiastes 2:24; Lamentations 3:38
  • 17. S Job 1:22; S Job 6:24; Psalms 39:1; James 1:12; James 5:11
  • 18. S Genesis 36:11; Jeremiah 49:7
  • 19. S Genesis 25:2
  • 20. Job 11:1; Job 20:1
  • 21. S Genesis 37:35; S Job 6:10; John 11:19; Job 42:11; Romans 12:15
  • 22. Job 17:7; Isaiah 52:14
  • 23. S 2 Samuel 15:23
  • 24. S Genesis 37:29; S Mark 14:63
  • 25. S Joshua 7:6; S 2 Samuel 1:2; Nehemiah 9:1; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 27:30
  • 26. Isaiah 3:26; Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 48:18; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 26:16; John 3:6; Haggai 2:22
  • 27. S Genesis 50:10; Ezekiel 3:15
  • 28. Proverbs 17:28; Isaiah 23:2; Isaiah 47:5

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Hebrew "the sons of God"
  • [b]. The Hebrew word rendered "foolish" denotes moral deficiency.

Job 2 Commentaries

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