{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":2,"genre":"prose","sub":"Job","prev":"job/1","next":"job/3","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"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].","f":["That is, the Accuser or the Adversary; here and throughout Job 2"],"h":"Job Loses His Health","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan.“ From roaming through the earth,” [he] replied,“ and walking back and forth in it.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"“ Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan."},{"style":"reg","t":"“ From roaming through the earth,” [he] replied,“ and walking back and forth in it.”"}],"style":"reg"},{"v":3,"t":"Then the LORD said to Satan,“ Have you considered My servant Job? For [there is] no one on earth like him, a man [who is] blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"“ Skin for skin!” Satan replied.“ A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”","f":[]},{"v":6,"t":"“ Very well,” said the LORD to Satan.“ He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":7,"t":"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.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":8,"t":"And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.","f":[]},{"v":9,"t":"Then [Job’s] wife said to him,“ Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”","f":["Or Bless"],"style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"“ 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.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"“ You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her.“ Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?”"},{"style":"reg","t":"In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"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 they met together to go and sympathize with [Job] and comfort him.","f":[],"h":"Job’s Three Friends","style":"reg"},{"v":12,"t":"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 in the air over his head.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"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 was.","f":[]}]}