GodsWord - Job - 2

2:1  One day when the sons of God came to stand in front of the LORD, Satan the Accuser came along with them.

2:2  The LORD asked Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From wandering all over the earth."

2:3  The LORD asked Satan, "Have you thought about my servant Job? No one in the world is like him! He is a man of integrity: He is decent, he fears God, and he stays away from evil. And he still holds on to his principles. You're trying to provoke me into ruining him for no reason."

2:4  Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! Certainly, a man will give everything he has for his life.

2:5  But stretch out your hand, and strike his flesh and bones. I bet he'll curse you to your face."

2:6  The LORD told Satan, "He is in your power, but you must spare his life!"

2:7  Satan left the LORD's presence and struck Job with painful boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

2:8  Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in the ashes.

2:9  His wife asked him, "Are you still holding on to your principles? Curse God and die!"

2:10  He said to her, "You're talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Shouldn't we also accept the bad?" Through all this Job's lips did not utter one sinful word.

2:11  When Job's three friends heard about all the terrible things that had happened to him, each of them came from his home--Eliphaz of Teman, Bildad of Shuah, Zophar of Naama. They had agreed they would go together to sympathize with Job and comfort him.

2:12  When they saw him from a distance, they didn't even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept, and each of them tore his own clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

2:13  Then they sat down on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him because they saw that he was in such great pain.