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Job 2
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King James Version
Job Is Put to the Test
Again
1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present
themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them
to present himself before the LORD.
2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And
Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in
the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my
servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a
perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and
escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity,
although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without
cause.
4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea,
all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his
flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand;
but save his life.
7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and
smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his
crown.
8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and
he sat down among the ashes.
9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine
integrity? curse God, and die.
10 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.
Job’s Three Friends Come
to Comfort Him
11 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: for they had made an appointment together to
come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 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 mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads
toward heaven.
13 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.1
References and notes
1. King James Authorized Version
2.
Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible
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http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries
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