Job 2 GNV
Summary: In a second heavenly council scene, Satan argues that Job's integrity would collapse if his own body were afflicted, "skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life" (v. 4), and God permits Satan to strike Job with painful sores from head to foot, though his life must be spared. Job sits among ashes scraping his sores with broken pottery, and when his wife urges him to "curse God, and die," Job rebukes her, asking whether they should accept only good from God and not adversity, and still does not sin with his lips. Job's three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, hear of his calamity and come to comfort him, but on seeing his condition they weep, tear their robes, and sit with him in silence for seven days and nights, so great was his suffering.
1And on a day the children of God came and stood before the Lord, and Satan came also among them, and stoode before the Lord.
2Then the Lord sayde vnto Satan, Whence commest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and sayd, From compassing the earth to and from, and from walking in it.
3And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
4And Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life.
5But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face.
6Then the Lord said vnto Satan, Lo, he is in thine hand, but saue his life.
7So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord, and smote Iob with sore boyles, from the sole of his foote vnto his crowne.
8And he tooke a potsharde to scrape him, and he sate downe among the ashes.
9Then said his wife vnto him, Doest thou continue yet in thine vprightnes? Blaspheme God, and dye.
10But he said vnto her, Thou speakest like a foolish woman: what? shall we receiue good at the hande of God, and not receiue euill? In all this did not Iob sinne with his lippes.
11Nowe when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place, to wit, Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they were agreed together to come to lament with him, and to comfort him.
12So when they lift vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not: therefore they lift vp their voyces and wept, and euery one of them rent his garment, and sprinkled dust vpon their heads toward the heauen.
13So they sate by him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a worde vnto him: for they sawe, that the griefe was very great.
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