Job 2
1 One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and the Accuser came among them too to present himself before the LORD.
2 The LORD asked the Accuser, “Where have you come from?” The Accuser answered the LORD, “From roaming the earth and walking about on it.”
3 The LORD said to the Accuser, “Have you noticed my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth: an upright and honest man, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still holds on to his integrity, though you stirred me up against him to destroy him for no reason.”
4 The Accuser answered the LORD, “Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has for his own life.
5 But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh: surely he will curse you to your face.”
6 The LORD said to the Accuser, “He is in your hand; only spare his life.”
7 Then the Accuser went out from the LORD’s presence and struck Job with a terrible sore, from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
8 Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and sat among the ashes.
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die.”
10 He replied, “You speak like one of the foolish women. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Job’s three friends heard about all this trouble that had come upon him, and each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They agreed to go and mourn with him and comfort him.
12 When they looked up from a distance, they did not recognize him. Then they raised their voices and wept, and each tore his robe and threw dust into the air over his head.
13 They sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, and no one said a word to him, because they saw that his pain was very great.
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