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Job 2:1-13 — Job's Second Test

Job.2.1-13

¹One day, the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. ²The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From roaming through the earth and from walking back and forth in it.” ³The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil. He still holds fast to his integrity, even though you incited me against him to ruin him without cause.” ⁴Satan answered the LORD and said, "Skin for skin ! All that a man has he will give for his life. ⁵But stretch out your hand now, and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse you to your face." ⁶The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.” ⁷So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with severe boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ⁸And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself with, while he was sitting among the ashes. ⁹Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” ¹⁰But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. ¹¹Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They met together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him. ¹²When they lifted up their eyes from a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air over their heads. ¹³Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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4/11/2026

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