Verse
ASV
American Standard Version
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
Again
it
came
to
pass
on the
day when
the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah
, that
Satan came
also among
them to present himself before Jehovah
.
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
.
And
Jehovah
said
unto
Satan,
From whence
comest
thou
? And
Satan
answered
Jehovah,
and
said ,
From
going
to and
fro
in
the earth, and from
walking up
and down
in it.
“Where
have
you
come
from? ”
said the
LORD
to Satan.
“From
roaming
through
the earth, ”
he
replied,
“
and walking back
and forth
in it. ”
And
Jehovah
said unto
Satan, Hast
thou
considered my servant Job? for there is none
like him in
the
earth
, a perfect
and an
upright man
, one
that
feareth
God ,
and turneth
away
from
evil :
and
he still holdeth
fast
his integrity, although
thou
movedst
me against him ,
to destroy
him without cause.
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. ”
And
Satan
answered
Jehovah,
and
said,
Skin for skin ,
yea,
all
that
a man hath
will he
give for his life.
“
Skin for skin !”
Satan
replied.
“
A man will give up
all
he
owns
in
exchange
for his life.
But put
forth
thy
hand now,
and touch
his
bone
and
his flesh, and he will renounce
thee
to thy
face.
But stretch
out
Your
hand and strike
his flesh and
bones
, and he will surely
curse
You
to Your
face. ”
And
Jehovah
said unto
Satan ,
Behold,
he is in thy
hand;
only
spare his life.
“Very
well,”
said the
LORD
to
Satan .
“
He is in your
hands,
but
you
must
spare his life. ”
So Satan went forth
from the presence of Jehovah,
and smote
Job with sore
boils from the sole
of his foot
unto
his
crown.
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
.
And he
took him
a potsherd
to scrape himself therewith;
and
he sat among the ashes.
And Job
took a piece
of
broken
pottery
to scrape himself as
he sat among the ashes.
Then said
his
wife unto
him, Dost
thou
still hold
fast
thine
integrity? renounce
God ,
and die .
Then Job’s
wife said
to
him, “Do
you
still retain
your
integrity? Curse
God and die !”
But
he
said
unto
her,
Thou
speakest
as one
of
the
foolish women
speaketh
. What?
shall
we receive
good
at
the
hand
of
God ,
and shall
we
not receive
evil
? In all this did not Job
sin with
his
lips
.
“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
.
Now when Job's
three friends heard
of
all
this
evil
that
was
come
upon
him,
they
came
every
one
from
his
own
place:
Eliphaz the Temanite, and
Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made
an
appointment
together to come
to
bemoan
him
and to
comfort him.
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.
And
when they lifted up their eyes afar off
, and
knew
him
not,
they lifted
up
their
voice
, and wept;
and
they
rent
every
one
his robe ,
and sprinkled
dust upon
their
heads
toward
heaven
.
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
.
So
they sat down
with
him
upon
the ground seven days and seven nights, and
none
spake
a word unto
him :
for
they saw that
his grief
was very
great
.
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.
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