Job 2

1Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 1:6 · Isa 6:1 · Luke 1:19 · Heb 1:14

2Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”Cross-references: Gen 16:8 · Job 1:7 · John 14:30 · 2Cor 4:4 · 1Pet 5:8

3Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”Cross-references: Gen 6:9 · 2Sam 20:20 · Job 1:1 · Job 1:8 · Job 1:11 · Job 1:21 · +17 more

4Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.Cross-references: Esth 7:3 · Isa 2:20 · Jer 41:8 · Matt 6:25 · Matt 16:26 · Acts 27:18 · +1 more

5But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”Cross-references: Lev 24:15 · 1Chr 21:17 · Job 1:5 · Job 1:11 · Job 2:9 · Job 19:20 · +4 more

6Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”Cross-references: Job 1:12 · Job 38:10 · Ps 65:7 · Luke 8:29 · Luke 22:31 · 1Cor 10:13 · +3 more

7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.Cross-references: Ex 9:9 · Deut 28:27 · Deut 28:35 · 1Ki 22:22 · Job 7:5 · Job 30:17 · +4 more

8He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.Cross-references: 2Sam 13:19 · Job 19:14 · Job 42:6 · Ps 38:5 · Ps 38:7 · Isa 61:3 · +5 more

9Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”Cross-references: Gen 3:6 · Gen 3:12 · 1Ki 11:4 · 2Ki 6:33 · Job 1:11 · Job 2:3 · +3 more

10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.Cross-references: Gen 3:17 · 2Sam 6:20 · 2Sam 13:13 · 2Sam 19:22 · 2Sam 19:28 · 2Sam 24:10 · +18 more

11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.Cross-references: Gen 25:2 · Gen 36:11 · Gen 36:15 · Gen 37:35 · 1Chr 1:32 · Job 6:14 · +20 more

12When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.Cross-references: Gen 27:34 · Josh 7:6 · Judg 2:4 · Ruth 1:19 · 1Sam 11:4 · 1Sam 30:4 · +9 more

13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.Cross-references: Gen 1:5 · Gen 1:8 · Gen 50:10 · Ezra 9:3 · Neh 1:4 · Job 4:2 · +4 more