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Job 2

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ One day the sons of God ⓐ came again to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the LORD.

² The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” “From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”

³ Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, ⓑ who fears God and turns away from evil. ⓒ He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”

⁴ “Skin for skin!” Satan answered the LORD. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

⁵ But stretch out Your hand and strike ⓓ his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

⁶ “Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”

⁷ So Satan left the LORD’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ⓔ

⁸ Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes. [1] ⓕ

⁹ His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”

¹⁰ “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. [2]

¹¹ Now when Job’s three friends — Eliphaz the Temanite, ⓖ Bildad the Shuhite, ⓗ and Zophar the Naamathite — heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort ⓘ him.

¹² When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, ⓙ and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. ⓚ

¹³ Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, ⓛ but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering ⓜ was very intense.

#	HCSB
1	One day the sons of God ⓐ came again to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the LORD.
2	The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” “From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered Him, “and walking around on it.”
3	Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, ⓑ who fears God and turns away from evil. ⓒ He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him, to destroy him without just cause.”
4	“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the LORD. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.
5	But stretch out Your hand and strike ⓓ his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
6	“Very well,” the LORD told Satan, “he is in your power; only spare his life.”
7	So Satan left the LORD’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. ⓔ
8	Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes. [1] ⓕ
9	His wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
10	“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept only good from God and not adversity?” Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said. [2]
11	Now when Job’s three friends — Eliphaz the Temanite, ⓖ Bildad the Shuhite, ⓗ and Zophar the Naamathite — heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort ⓘ him.
12	When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, ⓙ and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head. ⓚ
13	Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, ⓛ but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering ⓜ was very intense.

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^{Job 2:1 [4]} Hebrew the sons of God

^{Job 2:10 [5]} The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.

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