Further dialogue between God and Satan
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📚There was another day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. 2 📚And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” And Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it”.3 📚✭And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And he still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without cause”.
4 📚✭And Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. 5 📚But now stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face”.
6 📚✭And the LORD said to Satan, “See, he is in your hands; but spare his life”.
Satan’s attack on Job’s health
7 📚✭So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 📚✭And he took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, and sat down among the ashes.
The words of Job’s wife and his wonderful reply
9 📚✭Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold on to your integrity? Curse God, and die!”
10 📚✭But he said to her, “You are speaking like one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive trouble✭?” In all this Job did not sin✭ with his lips.
The visit of Job’s friends
11 📚✭Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this trouble that had come on him, each of them came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him. 12 📚✭And when they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept, and each of them tore his cloak and sprinkled dust on his head toward heaven. 13 📚✭So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.