Job 2 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Satan Strikes Job’s Flesh

Again it was the day^H3117 that the sons^H1121 of God^H430 came^H935 to stand^H3320 before^H5921 Yahweh^H3068, and Satan^H7854 also^H1571 came^H935 among^H8432 them to stand^H3320 himself before^H5921 Yahweh^H3068.

Job 2:2

Job 2:2And Yahweh said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, “From roaming about on the earth and walking around on it.”

Job 2:3

Job 2:3And Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you set your heart upon My servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, [fn]fearing God and turning away from evil. And he still holds fast his integrity. So you incited Me against him to swallow him up in vain.”

Job 2:4

Job 2:4Satan answered Yahweh and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Job 2:5

Job 2:5“However, send forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You in Your face.”

Job 2:6

Job 2:6So Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, only spare his life.”

Job 2:7

Then Satan^H7854 went^H3318 out^H3318 from the presence^H6440 of Yahweh^H3068 and struck^H5221 Job^H347 with terrible^H7451 boils^H7822 from the sole^H3709 of his foot^H7272 to the top^H6936 of^H6936 his head^H6936.

Job 2:8

Job 2:8And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 2:9

Then his wife^H802 said^H559 to him, “Do you still^H5750 hold^H2388 fast^H2388 your integrity^H8538? Curse^H1288 God^H430 and die^H4191!”

Job 2:10

Job 2:10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the wickedly foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept calamity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

Job’s Three Friends

Job 2:11

Then Job’s^H347 three^H7969 friends^H7453 heard^H8085 of all^H3605 this^H2088 calamity^H7451 that had come^H935 upon him. So they came^H935 each^H376 one^H376 from his own place^H4725, Eliphaz^H464 the Temanite^H8489, Bildad^H1085 the Shuhite^H7747, and Zophar^H6691 the Naamathite^H5284; and they made^H3259 an^H3259 appointment^H3259 together^H3162 to come^H935 to console^H5110 him and comfort^H5162 him.

Job 2:12

Job 2:12Then they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, and they lifted up their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe, and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

Job 2:13

Job 2:13Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights with no one speaking a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.

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Satan Strikes Job’s Flesh

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