CHAPTER 2
On another
day,
the sons
of God
came
to present themselves
before
the LORD;
and Satan
also
came
with them
to present
himself before
Him.
“Where
have you come from?”
said
the LORD
to
Satan.
“From roaming
through the earth,”
he
replied,
“and from walking back and forth
in it.”
Then the LORD
said
to
Satan,
“Have you considered
My servant
Job?
For
there is no one
on earth
like him—
blameless
and upright,
fearing
God
and shunning
evil.
He still
retains
his integrity,
even though you incited Me
against him
to ruin him
without cause."
But
stretch out
Your hand
and strike
his flesh
and bones,
and he will surely
curse You
to
Your face.”
So Satan
went out
from the presence
of the LORD
and infected
Job
with terrible
boils
from the soles
of his feet
to
the crown of his head.
“You speak
as a
foolish woman
speaks,”
he told
her.
“Should we accept
from
God
only good
and not
adversity?”
In all
this,
Job
did not
sin
in what he said.
Now when Job’s
three
friends—
Eliphaz
the Temanite,
Bildad
the Shuhite,
and Zophar
the Naamathite—
heard
about all
this
adversity
that had come
upon him,
each of them
came
from his home
and met
together
to go
and sympathize
with Job
and comfort him.
When they lifted
up their eyes
from afar,
they could barely
recognize Job.
They began to weep
aloud,
and each man
tore
his robe
and threw
dust
into the air
over
his head.
Then they sat
on the ground
with him
for seven
days
and seven
nights,
but no
one spoke
a word
to
him because
they saw
how intense
his suffering
had become.